The same stylus should work for all these types of records. Make sure the tonearm is balanced and weighted correctly for the acetates, though, and use distilled water to clean them first. It's the nature of acetates that they only last a certain number of plays before damage becomes audible. They were never intended to be long-term audio documents.
If you want to get picky, there are people who know the exact groove dimensions of most every record made, and Expert Stylus in England can grind stylii into whatever you need. Lastly, if there's anything sacred in there you'd like restored to whatever degree you'd want, email the file to me and I'll fix it up if I can. Best, Robert to:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Thatcher Graham > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:36 AM > To: Antique Phonograph List > Subject: [Phono-L] Rek-O-Kut Question > > I'm looking for a gear recommendation. > > I recently picked up a rek-O-Kut Rondine Jr-37 with the intention of > using it to rip some of my 78s to FLAC. I already have a phono pre-amp > and the turntable is in decent working order. But I need to put in an > appropriate cartridge. > > I intend to rip both shellac 78s, the later vinylite 78s and > hopefully... some of my more delicate transcription discs. > I am pretty sure those will be different cartridges. can anyone > recommend something? > > -- Thatcher > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://windowslive.com/Campaign/SocialNetworking?ocid=PID23285::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_SB_online:082009 _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
