[78-L] stylus for vertical-cut Edisons

[David Lennick]

3 mil is too wide for Edisons. I still get best results with the Shure SC 35 
cartridge (hard to find) and the SS35E stylus (imPOSSible to find, and don't 
under any circumstances buy the N78S which is a piece of garbage). The SS35E is 
2.5 mil. Edisons in good shape will sound fine with a 2.0 or 2.1 truncated 
elliptical stylus, and those aren't hard to find, although they also aren't cheap.

I had an old time repair guy wire one loop in my old Dynaco amp to provide 
phase reversal. Works beautifully.

dl

On 3/15/2011 10:10 AM, Mike Daley wrote:
> I'm looking into converting a Stanton 500 cartridge to play Edison
> Diamond Discs. The Esoteric Sound website seems to suggest that a
> regular 3.0 stylus (which I already have) will work fine.
> http://esotericsound.com/CartStyli.htm
> I know about reversing the polarity of the cartridge (though I don't
> yet know how to do it!)
> Don't vertical-cut records require a completely different stylus? Any
> suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> Mike
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