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The Different Kinds Of A Turntable Cartridge

By Stephen Reynolds


A magnetic cartridge is one important component of a record player since it is used for the recordings of analog sound playback which are also called as records. But now, the common name for this is turntable. Other terms used before are phonograph and gramophone. Cartridge is known also as pick up and it is a type of device which is electro mechanical that will convert vibrational to electrical energy. The electrical signal that the cartridge has created is amplified and is converted by loud speakers to sound.

Other components of this are the body, coils, magnets, cantilever, and styluses. The stylus is mounted and its purpose is to contact with the record groove. Styluses are often made from small polished diamonds or some industrial gemstones. The cantilever will be supporting the stylus while transmitting vibrations to the assembly of magnet or coil. Old cantilevers are made from aluminum or from boron. Other types of turntable cartridge contain styluses and cantilever that are detachable, making it as an advantage, resulting to no more replacement of cartridges when the styluses worn out.

Cartridges have different kinds of variations in dissimilar in size and shape. The two most known technology principles which serve as power of the types are the moving magnet and the moving coil. Moving coils have advanced designs and are expensive unlike moving magnets. Other types of MC have designs which are cheaper but may have low quality sounds.

Stylus cantilevers in magnetic cartridges often carry magnets permanently placed between two coils that are fixed in an electromagnetic generator form. If a magnet vibrates responding the stylus, it induces some current. Since magnets are made small and have a little mass, it cannot be connected to a generator mechanically and styluses that are adjusted will be following the grooves and would require a lesser amount of tracking force.

These magnetic types which are induced and as well as the iron type have moving pieces of iron or some other types of ferrous alloy. These are being connected to cantilevers instead of magnets. The bigger and the permanent magnet is placed above the coils which provides a magnetic flux necessarily.

The design of MC cartridges is an electromagnetic type of generator. Unlike MM designs, magnet and coils are reversed. Coil is attached to stylus moving in a constant magnet. The coil is made of very tiny fine wire. However, some MC cartridges may also have an output indistinguishable to MM cartridges.

Another type is the moving micro cross cartridge. This MMC design is considered as one variation of MI design. Both the magnets and the coils remain in place while the micro cross will be moving with the stylus.

And the last type is London Decca Cartridge. London Decca has unique designs and contains fixed magnets and fixed coils. Styluses contain diamond tips, having a short iron, and cantilever is shaped like an L made of steel that is non magnetic.

The short iron is positioned so close to stylus tip, resulting to a very accurate tracking of motions. Positive scanning is what the London Decca engineers call the tracking. This is a type which may be very musical but earlier versions need more forces of tracking.




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