Hi Tony,
Just on my way out and will reply to you this evening about the bass.
If it's the black bodied cartridge with a red stylus then that is the chuo denshi ceramic one. It actually is a really good sounding cartridge. About 25 years ago it was a good ceramic replacement in jukeboxes, I liked it much better than the other options at the time. However nowadays I think it's reputation had been sullied a bit because it's fitted into pretty much every cheapo suitcase record player. But non the less it is good. I have actually used it into a magnetic input as an experiment on tube preamps (Ami) and with no mods or resistors and it sounds great. Very pleasing. My only hesitation these days is that I see you can buy 4 styli on Temu for about 2 dollars, so that tells me something about the diamonds on the new ones.
Nigel, uk
On 2 Jun 2024 at 12:27, Tony Miklos via Jukebox-list jukebox-list@lists.netlojix.com wrote:
It is ceramic. I believe so anyway. I had bypassed a cobra oscillator and with a .05mfd cap tapped into the amp. It has plenty of volume.
I hate to admit what the cartridge it is, but it's for a Crossley record player and I don't even have a part number for it. I doesn't really sound bad at all and the customer was happy with it. Sadly it's already gone but I'm still interested in your bass boosting technique. I was going to mess with the resistors on the bass control but got detoured and didn't get around to it.
On 5/31/2024 9:12 AM, Nigel Pugh wrote:
Hi Tony, Is this for a magnetic cartridge or ceramic ? Is it lacking in bass because it is a lower output cartridge than original, and you have to turn up the volume to get a decent sound, and the potentiometer has moved out of the loudness contour, so the sound is a bit thin? Even naff repro styli in the genuine cartridges can produce poor bass. Anyhow if this is a case then I do have a solution, i.e improving the bass by boosting the output volume of the cartridge to the amp/preamp. If so, let me know and I'll type in the reply because I did this 2 years ago and found a great solution.
What is the jukebox and cartridge ? I'm assuming all is wired correctly and if it's a Rowe that the cartridge wires are out of phase.
If you want a quick fix and it's a tube amp, pull the avc tube 😁.
Nigel uk
On 31 May 2024 at 13:27, Tony Miklos via Jukebox-list jukebox-list@lists.netlojix.com wrote:
Is there any way to get more bass out of an amp when using a cartridge that is lacking in bass?
Tony
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