[78-L] Needle size cart?

[Erwin Kluwer]

you need sometimes up to 6 gram tracking force with Pathes, even with a
small stylus... also: turn anti-skating to max.


Erwin

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Mark Bardenwerper <citrogsa at charter.net>wrote:

> On 4/16/2011 12:44, Michael Biel wrote:
> > On 4/16/2011 12:30 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> >> If you have a truncated elliptical 2.0 or 2.1 size, I find that it plays
> Pathes
> >> just fine unless the disc is worn or damaged by steel needles.
> >>
> >> dl
> >>
> >> On 4/16/2011 12:15 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
> >>>    However, the Pathes are not playable because the needle simply
> >>> skids across the top of the grooves.
> > This obviously is a vertical sapphire ball Pathe and would have to be
> > played with the stereo cartridge wired out-of-phase.  Not only is the
> > groove vertically modulated, it is wide and shallow which is why a
> > standard stylus skitters across the surface.
> >>>    And I have a vary crisp copy of an
> >>> Eddie Cantor record on Emerson that has a terrific amount of hiss, but
> >>> low sound level.
> > This might be a vertical Emerson or a slant modulated groove which
> > Emerson used for a time that supposedly played on both lateral and
> > vertical players.  Actually it played on neither very well.  Try playing
> > it out-of-phase.
> As for the Pathe, I tried to use my LP needle with the same results. The
> Emerson tracks well.
> I am going to take an old Switchcraft No. 668 Stereo selector box, open
> it up and do some surgery on it to make an inline phase converter.
>
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