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Most tube record players and even consoles had ceramic cartridges. Some ceramics really sounded good, although good ones are becoming hard to find. I have high end Motorola console with a Sonotone 9t ceramic that sounds wonderful.
Most of the tube players with magnetic cartridges Ive seen are from the early to mid 50s, using the GE RPX mono cartridge. The early version of the Columbia 360 has one, along with a Webcor changer and push pull 6v6 amplifier. Later versions had series string amps and ceramic cartridges. The main competition to the Columbia 360 series was the Webcor Musicale, most of those have magnetic cartridges, but even Webcor switched to ceramic cartridges after about 1956. ive recently aquired both an early 360 and 2 webcor Musicales, I cant wait to get them restored and see what they sound like. Some of the real high end consoles, like Pilot and Fisher, probably used magnetic cartridges.
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