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The original cartridge by the way is still good, I tested it for output with my newly acquired EICO VTVM (that I finally found a set of test probes for) and I got a good strong deflection on the VTVM with it set in Ohms. |
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The typical failure of old carts is not that they fail electrically, but physically. Meaning, the soft parts that allow the needle's vibrations to shake the electrical pieces dry out and become solid. If it's a crystal cart the crystals themselves solidify with age, and old magnetic carts don't fare much better. In other words, electrically good is not proof of a working cart, making vibrations into amplifyable electrical representations of sounds is |
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Granted carts do dry out and get into a state where, while not dead, audio distortion is intolerably bad. The best test is actually listening to it's output.
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Does the phono input work? perhaps there was a good reason the plug was changed so that the phono could be plugged into the tuner input.
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Apparently when I went to remove the record changer from the cabinet the unit does indeed have its original record changer, but its been modified, the record changer used in this unit is a Webster-Chicago (Webcor) record changer model 256-19 which used its own unique cartridge assembly that had a flip over needle that selection of the proper side of the cartridge/needle was done via a lever on the back of the tone-arm (which that is what's missing/modified on my unit) they replaced the original cartidge (which I'm guessing was probably a high output crystal cartridge of the 3v variety,) which would explain the modification for inputting the phono output into the tuner input rather than the phono input, because the more modern 1V ceramic cartridge like the Sonotone 2T that they used to replace the original cartridge wasn't loud enough to play through the original phono input. See picture below. Last edited by vortalexfan; 04-17-2022 at 02:02 AM. |
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