[Dixielandjazz] Styli

[Marek Boym]

It did, too.  It laste about a year, without damaging the records.
Now I still have several 78 records, but my turntable hasn't got that
speed!  The one that had broke, and I have not replaced it.
Support live jazz (I'm going to do just that tomorrow, at the price of
around $30 per ticket).
Cheers, and season's greetings,
Marek

On 18/12/2007, philwilking <philwilking at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> If you go back far enough, you find that some record companies recommended
> changing steel "needles" after each record. Osmium needles would last for
> maybe as many as ten plays before the sides of the point wore flat with
> sharp cutting edges, but metal needles all wore down rapidly. And the
> vertical groove Edisons have their own problems.
>
> The wear problem and the groove damage it caused were the reason saphire,
> and later diamond, stylus tips became popular, even though individually they
> are more expensive than a steel or osmium needle. When combined with the
> much lighter tone arm pressure on the stylus for a long-playing record, the
> saphire stylus was touted as lasting many hours of play before wearing
> significantly.
>
> PHIL WILKING
>
> Those who would exchange freedom for
> security deserve neither freedom nor security.
>
>
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