[78-L] stylus for vertical-cut Edisons

[Mike Daley]

So playing vertical discs, beyond the matter of the stylus size, is
just a matter of reversing the polarity on the cartridge?

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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-----
>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>> [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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