Wednesday, September 14, 2016

When Turntable Cartridge Brings Groove Back

By Laura McDonald


People are naturally music fans. Not that you can expect everybody to pick every genre there is in the history of songs, because there is no such thing. When you love it, sometimes, you favour a certain style or genre. Rock, ballad, a little of both, pop or country, the list goes on for the type you listen to.

It just comes as no surprise that artists are inspired by the music legends that came before them. It has a way of igniting change and defining a generation like what happened with Nirvana in the nineties and the Beatles rising to the top and staying there in the sixties. This is why people still have turntable cartridge for their treasured vinyl records.

Today, you may see them very often in vintage stores more than in a house. With the advent of pop music, old, classic records are very rare. You will be lucky if your parents kept the ones they have from yester years. Those types are rare and you know that for a fact.

Whatever it is, this stuff is the real thing, outshining even your most valued karaoke set. Unfortunately, no matter how much you want a turntable to last as long as you want to, there is no telling when it might give up on you. You can only purchase as much cartridges as your tool will allow you to.

Having one of those is already rare these days, but not impossible. The thing is, although cartridge is available to get in designs by the hundreds, even thousands, the fact that turntables are mostly vintage bought means that there is no way of determining their compatibility to a stylus. Without that one part, you cannot make it work and expect to play your original plates again on them.

This is not entirely true because these things are packaged most of the time with various models and designs. If yours is a vintage that have been used already and not brand new, you would find it hard to know whether or not the original cartridge is still in place.

The table itself is a good place to begin with, so you can check this to be sure. Most of the time, it is stamped on the body. Other times you can find it in the housing it and that would make your task of finding out what you should use, easier. Just take the time to research so you would not be stuck in determining the differences, as you may have to buy your own later on.

There are so many retailers who can provide you the part you need when it fails. The designs are available in thousands. Imagine that. Then again, you do not have to keep changing them. One sturdy piece is all you need so you can use it some more.

What is important is that you know how it works so that you can use the device to its advantage. Like it or not, it is one thing that you do not see very often anymore. Having one and playing your records in it is like going back at a time when music was a comfort to all the unrest and war happening in the world.




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