[78-L] stylus for vertical-cut Edisons

[David Lennick]

A different matter is vertical cut transcriptions. Most of these play far 
better with a microgroove stylus, believe it or not, especially if the disc is 
scuffed and scratched. Try Worlds with a .7 stylus and be amazed.

dl

On 3/15/2011 11:33 AM, Dave at Audio Tech Transfer wrote:
> I'm using a Stanton 500.V3 to play vertical cut Edison discs on either my
> Technics SL-1200 (with 78 rpm mod) or a Technics SP-15.
>
> -3.0 or 3.5 mil stylus works fine.  I don't think this is a critical point,
> after all, you just need to ride the bottom of the groove.
> -Set antiskate so that there's no drifting of the tonearm in either
> direction.
> -Adjust pitch to + 2.2% (80 RPM) for Edison discs.
> -Switch Blue&  White cartridge leads as follows:
>
> Blue (headshell wire) goes to White (cartridge pin)
> White (headshell wire) goes to Blue (cartridge pin)
>
> This nulls out the unwanted horizontal signal of the stereo Stanton
> cartridge, while capturing the vertical signal.
>
> I've got a separate headshell and cartridge (wired as above) that's labelled
> "VERT." on the underside of the headshell.  So it's an easy matter of simply
> swapping cartridges anytime I want to play a Diamond Disc.
>
> Dave Rose
> aka Cactus Cowboy
>
>> Message: 20
>> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:03:02 -0400
>> From: Mike Daley<mikedaley at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] stylus for vertical-cut Edisons
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>> So playing vertical discs, beyond the matter of the stylus size, is
>> just a matter of reversing the polarity on the cartridge?
>
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