Some Considerations Affecting the Design of Phonograph Needles

However simple a piece of apparatus the phonograph needle appears to be, as a necessary link in the chain of reproducing equipment it must be as strong qualitatively as every other link, or the elementary principles of design are violated. One needs to calibrate only a few kinds of phonograph needles to find that quality of sound which has been achieved at the cost of thousands of dollars can be considerably impaired by using an improperly designed needle costing only a fraction of a cent.

Print ISSN

0097-5834

Published

1930-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J14774