[78-L] stylus for vertical-cut Edisons

[Royal Pemberton]

I don't know the exact dimensions either, but I see the wisdom in what
David's saying....if indeed 3 is the true size, tracking the discs with the
sizes David recommends means they're tracking just below the area of the
worst wear but well above the crud zone at the very bottom of the groove.
And even on a totally clean disc there's less noise picked up than would be
the case if microgroove styli were used for playback

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Ron L'Herault <lherault at bu.edu> wrote:

> I'm pretty sure the original acoustical diamond in a Diamond Disc
> reproducer
> was 3 mil.
>
> Ron L
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:16 AM
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] stylus for vertical-cut Edisons
>
> 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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