Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
jasee wrote:
It contains the Numark Groovetool cartridge (or similar) 'A high
value, adjustable cartridge in a traditional headshell mount design
-- great sound, great tracking! 6 mil spherical diamond cartridge
with 2.5g to
3.5g tracking force.' which should do wonders for your record
collection :-)

Must be a ceramic as the output of anything else wouldn't be high
enough, I think.

If it's USB surely it has a built in preamp and A-D convertor?

Yes, of course. (I'd forgotten USB) But at about £12 for the cartridge, I
can't imagine it would be even moving magnet.

In article ,
jasee wrote:
Yes, of course. (I'd forgotten USB) But at about £12 for the cartridge,
I can't imagine it would be even moving magnet.

I dunno the relative manufacturing costs of MM versus ceramic. This sort
of thing has shifted dramatically with CAD machinery.

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
jasee wrote:
Yes, of course. (I'd forgotten USB) But at about £12 for the
cartridge, I can't imagine it would be even moving magnet.

I dunno the relative manufacturing costs of MM versus ceramic. This
sort of thing has shifted dramatically with CAD machinery.

Oh, so whats now considered a good cartridge?
It used to be (generally) moving coils in the days before things went crazy.

"jasee" wrote in message
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
jasee wrote:
Yes, of course. (I'd forgotten USB) But at about £12 for the
cartridge, I can't imagine it would be even moving magnet.

I dunno the relative manufacturing costs of MM versus ceramic. This
sort of thing has shifted dramatically with CAD machinery.

Oh, so whats now considered a good cartridge?
It used to be (generally) moving coils in the days before things went
crazy.



Like cars/toasters/lawnmowers/DVDPs &c. nowadays, cartridges all do pretty
much the same job somewhat differently at vastly differing prices and it's
hard to find one that isn't good in its own way - the first question in all
these cases would have to be 'what's your budget'....???

jasee wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
jasee wrote:
Yes, of course. (I'd forgotten USB) But at about £12 for the
cartridge, I can't imagine it would be even moving magnet.

I dunno the relative manufacturing costs of MM versus ceramic. This
sort of thing has shifted dramatically with CAD machinery.

Oh, so whats now considered a good cartridge?
It used to be (generally) moving coils in the days before things went crazy.

Most cartridges are moving magnet.

Graham

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

I dunno the relative manufacturing costs of MM versus ceramic. This
sort of thing has shifted dramatically with CAD machinery.

CAM - the machinery bit is Computer Aided Manufacture. CAD is the Design bit
wot is used to produce data that gets fed to the CAM bit.


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Wally
www.wally.myby.co.uk
You're unique - just like everybody else.

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:53:09 -0000, jasee wrote:


Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
jasee wrote:
It contains the Numark Groovetool cartridge (or similar) 'A high
value, adjustable cartridge in a traditional headshell mount design
-- great sound, great tracking! 6 mil spherical diamond cartridge
with 2.5g to
3.5g tracking force.' which should do wonders for your record
collection :-)

Must be a ceramic as the output of anything else wouldn't be high
enough, I think.

If it's USB surely it has a built in preamp and A-D convertor?

Yes, of course. (I'd forgotten USB) But at about £12 for the cartridge, I
can't imagine it would be even moving magnet.

Considering the millions (billions?) of MM cartridges made since the 60's, I
can't imagine ceramic being cheaper to make. A MM cartridge can be made for
about the price of a cheap pair of headphones.

"jasee" wrote in message
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
jasee wrote:
It contains the Numark Groovetool cartridge (or similar) 'A high
value, adjustable cartridge in a traditional headshell mount design
-- great sound, great tracking! 6 mil spherical diamond cartridge
with 2.5g to
3.5g tracking force.' which should do wonders for your record
collection :-)

Must be a ceramic as the output of anything else wouldn't be high
enough, I think.

If it's USB surely it has a built in preamp and A-D convertor?

Yes, of course. (I'd forgotten USB) But at about £12 for the cartridge, I
can't imagine it would be even moving magnet.


The Goldring Elan retails for about 19 quid retail - my local telly shop
pays about 7 quid each for them in boxes of a dozen or so (set in rows, in
polystyrene) and sells a continuous stream of them to people wanting 'a new
cartridge'.

I was given one to fit to a Thorens that I borrowed to audition and it
sounded perfectly fine, see:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/elan.JPG

Keith G wrote:
"jasee" wrote in message
...
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
jasee wrote:
It contains the Numark Groovetool cartridge (or similar) 'A high
value, adjustable cartridge in a traditional headshell mount design
-- great sound, great tracking! 6 mil spherical diamond cartridge
with 2.5g to
3.5g tracking force.' which should do wonders for your record
collection :-)
Must be a ceramic as the output of anything else wouldn't be high
enough, I think.
If it's USB surely it has a built in preamp and A-D convertor?
Yes, of course. (I'd forgotten USB) But at about £12 for the cartridge, I
can't imagine it would be even moving magnet.


The Goldring Elan retails for about 19 quid retail - my local telly shop
pays about 7 quid each for them in boxes of a dozen or so (set in rows, in
polystyrene) and sells a continuous stream of them to people wanting 'a new
cartridge'.

I was given one to fit to a Thorens that I borrowed to audition and it
sounded perfectly fine, see:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/elan.JPG



I think I paid a little over 20 quid for an Ortofon OM5E, which sounds
perfectly OK on my (cheap) turntable.

Matt

Keith G wrote:

I was given one to fit to a Thorens that I borrowed to audition and it
sounded perfectly fine, see:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/elan.JPG

But you're demonstrably deaf Keith !

Graham