Friday 30 September 2016

Some Common Variations Of The 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.

The components of this includes cantilever, styluses, coils, magnets, and the body. The mounted stylus serves as a contact to the record groove. The styluses are usually made out from industrial gemstones or small polished diamonds. The cantilever serves as a support to its stylus and it will transmit the vibrations to magnet or coil assembly. Cantilevers before are often made from aluminum or boron. There are some types of a turntable cartridge that contains detachable cantilever and styluses which may be an advantage because there is no need to replace or remove cartridges if the styluses are worn out.

Cartridges have many different kinds varying from different shapes and sizes. Moving coil and moving magnet are two common technology principles which powers the types. Moving coil is more advanced when it comes to design and this kind is also more expensive. Some MC types have cheaper designs but have poor sound results.

In magnet cartridges, stylus cantilevers always carry magnets permanently positioned in between the 2 fixed coils forming an electromagnetic generator. When the magnet vibrates responses the stylus, it will induce some current. Since the magnets have a little mass and its size is small, and it is also not mechanically connected to the generator, adjusted styluses will follow the groove and requires lesser tracking force.

Magnetic types that are induced and also the iron types have a moving iron piece or ferrous alloy types. These are connected to the cantilevers instead of the magnets. The magnet which is permanent and bigger is positioned on top of the coils that provides the required magnetic flux.

Designs of the Mc cartridges are electromagnetic generators. Unlike the designs of MM, coils and magnet are reversed. The coil is connected to the stylus and is moving within the magnet permanently. It is made of tiny and very fine wire. However, other kinds of MC cartridges may have the same output as with the 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 one last type is a London Decca cartridge. This is considered as a unique design and its coils and magnets are fixed. The styluses have tips made from diamond, it has a short iron, and its cantilever is in L shape made from a non magnetic steel.

The iron is placed so close to the tip of stylus and this results to the accuracy of motions tracking. Engineers of the type often called the tracking as positive scanning. The London Decca type is often very musical but its early versions are required to have more tracking forces.




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