i own two at-lp120's and they both broke

Any one else disappointed he didn't try it ? (although not with this historic cartridge). I'm sure it would solve the problem of content matches :-)

Yeah I was waiting for a 50 year old light bulb to be wired to the turntable motor, and then the rest plugged into 50,000V 😂

Maybe you can put a Laserdisc and watch a movie, jajaja

Great to see another Photonicinduciton fan!

RIP cheap German Schneider newave stereo system and RIP Audio Technica lp120 lol

The closest there was to a high quality ceramic were the ones made by Micro-Acoustics (although they marketed it under "electret transducer" but it uses the same principle). I have a Micro-Acoustics MA282e and the MA2002e, both which are basically high quality and high fidelity ceramic cartridges designed to be used with a standard phono preamp (like the ones for magnetic cartridges). Gonna post a video later today about it. The 282e is paired to my Acoustic Research XB turntable, tracking at 0.75g, while the 2002e is pared to my Pioneer PL-530, tracking at 1g.

I remember the first time I connected a BSR ceramic cartridge to a decent amplifier and almost forgot what I was listening to. They were not as dreadful as all that if they were on a reasonable turntable. BSR also did nice magnetic cartridges of the induced magnet variety (to keep the moving magnet weight down), such as the ADC QLM-33.

@@video99couk : Ah yes.. I'd almost forgotten about those ADC QLM cartridges! Very light-weight, very high compliance, and very light tracking force....sounded excellent in a low-mass tonearm; they also had a high quality tonearm available, and a series of badge-built turntables (from BSR) with a lower quality derivative of that tonearm!

In the early 80's I (well, my parents) had a fine German made Belcanto turntable with a ceramic cartridge. I never forget the joy it brought listening to my favorite ABBA and classical music records on it. :)

@Kent Teffeteller : The Philips ceramics were for certain excellent! The one that Mum & Dad had in the 60s was a 'portable' stereo player, with two speakers that clipped-on over the turntable. The whole thing was made of wood, and had a metal chassis inside; a spring loaded plinth which held the platter, motor, and the arm, and had a fully automatic mechanism as well. The amplifiers inside were valve/tube amps. The cartridge was one of those long, thin ones that clicked into place on the end of the arm, and had the flip-over stylus. It sounded marvellous (to me!!), and I used it for a long time during the 70s as my own record player; I loved it! It was sadly replaced when in the very late 70s replacement valves/tubes no longer worked to make it play... 😞

You are doing pretty well for hearing above 15kHz at 57. I used to hear 19kHz when I was 16-18. Now I am 34 and the rolloff is around 16kHz. And no, I don't go to concerts. I went to a local street party when I was around 20, and my ears were ringing for 3 weeks after it. It felt like my ears were full of water, the high frequency rolloff was around 6-8kHz for that period. I don't know what they were doing, but they surely exceeded any legal sound pressure limits for such a small space. I was hearing my auditory bones rattling! It was the mid and the high frequencies that was the worst. I took a peek at the power amps on the stage (while covering my ears), the clipping LEDs were lighting up almost constantly. And there were two huge racks filled with amplifiers, the sound system looked like something I would expect to fill up a stadium with loud music, yet it was used in a street that was ~15-20m across... I would guess the high THD of the overdriven amps was what made this so horrible and irritating. I guess they grilled some tweeters that night. And some ears, too. I escaped the scene after about 15-20 minutes, and it took a month to my hearing to recover. I may have suffered some permanent hearing loss that night. I cannot imagine what happened to the ones who were there the whole night. Some of them were standing right in front of the speakers.

It's interesting, because the first Sony turntable in Spain was the Sony PS-11W with Sony XL-15 cartridge released in 1978/79. It was based on the Sony PS-5500 from 1976. This turntable was made in Spain except for the cartridge and various parts. They had to make the turntable in Spain because import duties and shipping costs were very huge during the 1970s and 80s. It's my everyday turntable since 2017. It cost me 50 euros plus 20 more for a new stylus. I'm really happy with it. Great 70s looks and very sturdy and solid turntable.

@@MartinMartorell As a matter of fact I found one last year in the street beside a dumpster, it was in very bad shape but I could recover the XL-15 cartridge and the rubber slipmat. I still use the mat, it saved me 50€ on a new one. ¡Menuda suerte!

Also, the Sony XL-15 was the low end of the line, but the higher end models like the XL-45 are very looked for on the Internet, apparently they some kind of patented technology and they had super light moving mass. Sony excelled at anything they did if they wanted to, they still do.

@@MartinMartorell Hi Martin, do you know in which part/city of Spain Sony turntable were made?thank you

@@pietroprogman Sony established in Spain buying Kosmos Eléctrica and renaming it as Hispano Sony, S.A. in mid 1973. It was in Las Franquesas Del Valles in Granollers, province of Barcelona. They started selling radios, stereo amplifiers and portable Black and White TVs as far i know. I think that earlier the PS-11W, they made some low-ends turntables during the 70s, like BSR or Dual from the era. The first "high-end" turntable i think it was the PS-11W, dating from the late 70s. It's very likely that the turntable was made in Barcelona, with parts imported from other countries. During the 60s/70s, there was a industrial explosion in Spain. In Barcelona and Valencia many manufacturing plants and factories were opening from foreign companys like Telefunken and Dual or national ones like Inter Electronica or Werner. Many young people from villages and rural areas moved to the big cities to get jobs. It's kind of sad that Spain now it's more focused in tourism and almost every factory anqd national companys from the era disappeared, and in consequence thousands of people lost their jobs.. Now it's all Chinese manufacturing.

no it's not sad, we could make a far superior cartridge if we wanted too. there is no need to make an inferior one. even if it is high quality for what it is.

since you mentioned video game, I believe it's the same reason that Famicom (as in Nintendo's Japanese version of the NES) is sometimes written and pronounced like Famicon.

Correct though...the Japanese language itself (regardless of writing system) has a "few" pronounciation limits. For example, the words and phrases are made of full syllables. The letter "L" in English would be read as "eru" and "M" would be "emu" (as in "emulsion"). And it's all straight to the point...no special phonetics (e.g. most French words). There's a reason why crossing to the other language (Japanese for the English speaker and vice versa) is pretty tough... One oddity would be even though there is no "la" on the alphabet...sometimes on songs and even people you can hear "la" where it would have been "ra"...

Load Monarch is Fromsoftware’s Adult game.

@@ruikazane5123 the "r" sound in Japanese varies a lot depending on dialect and situation, but generally involves the tongue touching the roof of your mouth (alveolar), similar to an English "L" but usually lighter. Think of it as somewhere in between an "r" and "L", though it is more nuanced than that. And when singing the articulation can be different again.

@@AaronSmart.online A Japanese Language teacher told us that for Japanese the difference between Rice and Lice is a small variation in accent.

The MC3 is a Sony design (not AT). If you can find them the XL-88, XL-88D, MC5, MC7, or MC9 are significantly better; may be worth it considering the level of your turntable.

@@mvevitsis The XL-MC series were made by SST and developed in collaboration with AT.

*division

One of the few KZfaqrs that have been consistent since the start

Hands down he is my favourite youtuber. Not over-hyped like many are , and he knows his subject.

Yes , and probably closer to 600mV. This was made for cheaper record players . The specs. are pretty average for hifi.

It's an Oberek, not a Polka.

Same, I kept thinking drop the needle

From the same era I have seen Sony Music Centres fitted with Garrard decks. This was how they came from the factory. Of course back then record decks all had a very similar size chassis so it was easy for a manufacturer to swap decks depending on local import tariffs etc.

Thanks for the info. For the audio samples in the video, I actually used my IMA PS 2500 "1970s in a box" stereo system, which has a true high-impedance ceramic phono input.

@@vwestlife I actually had TWO of these in the prop library back when I worked at the Gowanus E-Waste Warehouse before we closed down. Kinda wished I took one of them home. At least I still have my Magnavox FM-28 which is a proper tube stereo and has the high impedance input for ceramics. On some cheaper stereos, they seem to have moved from 1 megaohm to a 270k ohm input. My Dual KA-25, if I can find a 5-pin DIN plug with both input and output RCA connectors, has a pretty good high impedance input circuit for ceramic carts.

By the way, I modded my SL-1900 to run at 78rpm a few years ago with a turbo button. Great machine

Totally, my best guess is that it doesn't "know" it's spinning. So likely worthy to check whatever feedback it have. Why brake a stationary platter? and max torque to get it up to speed!

I just did the opposite on eBay. An American paid £25 + £30 postage for a 1980s Thomas the Tank engine train set. It was a good thing I offered worldwide postage (at cost) as nobody else bid.

Just surprised that the AT was first choice and the Technics was the substitute!

Cm/dyne is the SI-cgs unit of compliance, I.e. Reciprocal of spring stiffness. Nothing to do with torque.

Actually some current $2 Chuo Denshi ceramic cartridge clones don't sound too horrible either. He made a video about them a few years ago. They sound better than the original vintage Chou Denshi ones (but not all of them, the clones are probably being made in many different factories, and they sound quite different).

Not worth get it fixed, but pretty sure it worth DIY-fix it, if the necessary part is available. Hope you haven't tossed it, but sold or donated it.