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Okay, so my new 78 stylus for my audio-technica turntable arrived today. So I can once again play my latter 78's on my modern turntable. Plus I bought a second head shell for it. So instead of replacing the stylus. I just remove the head shell with the 33&45 stylus, and put the 78 in. Much easier now.

Stylus is a SURE M78S


Paul

That's the same cartridge I use on my old (very old!) 78-dedicated Empire 598 turntable, and it's a good one! Sooner or later I'm going to get a variable-speed turntable: my records tend to be on the old side, with all sorts of odd speeds.

Your solution with the two headshells is great. These days I don't even have a way to play L's, so I can keep the Empire at 78.

What do you do with the sound? I turn all my equalizers all the way down from 20 to 70, or even 150 hrz. Seems like pretty good sound.

Good luck with the Sure! I've been using them since I was a teenager.

I use a pair of TEAC PowerMax 160/2 stereo speakers. The are powered speakers, so I can plug the turntable directly into them, since it has an internal amplifier.

I have a nice modern turn table that plays 33 and 45, but has a built in strobe to adjust the speed and set it. My question is if i set the speed to 45 and turn up the strobe to speed it faster, can i play 78's on it?
Its a very good qualulity turntable, but i didnt know if there was a way to make 78's play on it. I wish they made a modern quality turntable that played the 78's

Just for the record, these are Shure cartridges we are discussing, not "Sure".

Victrolaman wrote:I have a nice modern turn table that plays 33 and 45, but has a built in strobe to adjust the speed and set it. My question is if i set the speed to 45 and turn up the strobe to speed it faster, can i play 78's on it?
Its a very good qualulity turntable, but i didnt know if there was a way to make 78's play on it. I wish they made a modern quality turntable that played the 78's

I doubt that your speed control would allow you to go as high as 78, but I might be wrong.
Some sound restoration programs will allow you to make a digital transfer at the slower speed and then reprocess it to whatever speed or pitch you prefer.
Sometimes it works well, other times not. Transferring at a slower speed will naturally take a lot longer!

Bob

VV-VI - There are several modern turntables that play 78's. The best prices I've found are at http://65.36.235.139/Merchant2/merchant ... y_Code=105

I'm saving up to get one!

Nat

VV-X - Sounds like a great system! I wish could hear it!

Edisonfan wrote:
Stylus is a SURE M78S

That Shure has been a well regarded cartridge for years. I know of one high profile 78 mastering engineer who liked to use it a lot for his professional transfers, but supposedly they've changed something about it, and it's not quite as good anymore. Not to claim that it's a bad purchase or anything. I'm sure it performs well, as per Shure's longstanding reputation.

I was looking at this recently...

http://www.edsaunders.com/reded.htm

At least one person claims they like this cart better than the Shure. It's cheap enough to to take a blind chance on, I think I'm going to.

Thank you for catching that John. Yes it is SHURE.