Ceramic Cartridge Equalization

Such cartridges which have mostly occupied the cheaper end of the market and used either piezoelectric crystal or electrostrictive ceramic generators require different milder replay equalization to account for the differences between the riaa record characteristic and a.

Ceramic cartridge equalization.

To make the equalization take effect precisely within the aforementioned riaa characteristics zone the circuit must take into account the capacitance of the ceramic cartridge. The decca deram ceramic cartridge was one popular example. I recently replaced the crystal cartridge with a modern ceramic one but it doesn t sound any better. Ceramic cartridge preamp circuit the revitalizer.

Do i need to add riaa equalization to the radio s phono circuitry to make it sound right on 45rpm records. Equalization of ceramic cartridges only require a small amount of equalization which is generally handled by mechanical means magnetic cartridges on the other hand require massive amounts of equalization. If the cartridge manufacturer does not mention this parameter then the only other option is to measure it using a meter to get a rough estimate. They had an almost perfect built in mechanical equalization and all that an engineer had to do was to feed the signal to the grid of a valve triode and it would sing like a canary.

I felt it was better to do it this way as it does not require an oscilloscope and specialized equipment. In this ceramic cartridge preamp circuit we are able to set the precise equalization required for any cartridge by calculating the required value of r1 from the cartridge capacitance. Records have always sounded harsh in the treble very tinny. Riaa equalization is a specification for the recording and playback of phonograph records established by the recording industry association of america riaa.

Then in 1946 a new type of ceramic cartridge appeared with the big bad sonotone and ever since then the industry utilised modern ceramic titanates to produce the. However you will need to make an attenuator. A ceramic phonograph pickup is capacitive and its high impedance susceptible to loading hence this low cost and simple one transistor circuit is specially designed for cartridges with capacitance. This ceramic cartridge preamplifier circuit is one of the simplest utilising the least number of discrete components for producing riaa equalization.

I suppose everyone might be thinking how to use this cheap cartridge hence this page might help.