Pointed Facts About Stereo Cartridges
August, 1980
It's so small you may not even know it is there. Indeed, most of the time all you see of it is a small metal projection popularly called the needle--though by now you may have graduated to the more sophisticated term stylus. We're talking, of course, about the cartridge or pickup at the end of the tonearm on a record player, whose job it is to translate the mute wiggles engraved in the record groove into an electrical replica. This signal eventually becomes the sound you hear.Basic PickupsPiezoe...
