Hi Jim! Kurt Nauck's assistent Brian told me years ago he uses an LP stylus for Pathe's, but when I'm doing restoration work, I get much better results using a 78 stylus. Ideally I'd use a sapphire ball mounted on a modern cartridges cantilever (tip mass be damned!), but like you said, Expert's prices are hard to swallow, even if the product is worth it.
Modern LP stylii work great for Diamond Discs, and it would be safe to assume they'd fit 4M cylinder grooves as well. I can't speak intelligently about the width of 2M cylinder grooves. You might ask Glenn Sage of www.tinfoil.com what he uses. Please share with us whatever you find out! Best, Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <Phono-L at oldcrank.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:40 PM Subject: [Phono-L] Styli >A friend has asked me to record electrically some of my vertical-cut Pathe >records & I also want to record electrically Edison Diamond Discs & two & >four-minute cylinders. I have sophisticated equipment for playing 78s >electrically (for 17 years I produced a weekly show > for the local FM station of Classical 78s) including a Packburn Noise > Suppressor which has switch for playing vertical-cut recordings but I > need styluses to play Pathe, Diamond Discs, & two & four-minute cylinders > (using a Rabco tangential tracking arm & the mandrel & > motor from an Amberola 30) that will fit either a Shure M44 cartridge, > Shure M78S cartridge or Shure Model "V" cartridge If any of you all > have had experience in electrically-reproducing vertical-cut records of > various types & can advise me on sources for such styli I would greatly > appreciate it. (I know of Expert Pickups in England but their prices are > out of this world so I hope to find a more affordable source.0 > Thanks! > > Jim Cartwright > > Immortal Performances > > > > jimcip at earthlink.net > EarthLink Revolves Around You. > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >
