Ingvar Ahlberg
AVForums Grandmaster
This was actually started by [member=17918]JonnyP[/member] when he broght the Pickering XSV3000 up to the surface.
That was a good cartridge, especially for its time and the company under its both product names, Pickering and Stanton made some good cartridges, what later happened under Teledynes name and under control of greedy bank men I dont even want to think about.
Around this time Pickering launched a turntable, the FA112, looking much like the contemporary competition but with with one big difference,
the central bearing for the platter was a piece of glass with a hole where the central shaft fitted and the platter was suspended by a magnet surrounding the shaft on the chassis and an opposing magnet attached to thr underside of the platter.
This making it floating on a magnetic cussion, very imune to any kind of feedback, problem came when approaching record center, last two tracks or thereabouts, two quite forcefull magnets underneat the non shielding platter, resulted in some strange cartridge behaviour.
Some pressed their face stright down on the record surface, some got very light stylus force suddenly, moving coil was not useable on this nor was Decca cartridges, all in all a good ide not finished.
Ingvar
That was a good cartridge, especially for its time and the company under its both product names, Pickering and Stanton made some good cartridges, what later happened under Teledynes name and under control of greedy bank men I dont even want to think about.
Around this time Pickering launched a turntable, the FA112, looking much like the contemporary competition but with with one big difference,
the central bearing for the platter was a piece of glass with a hole where the central shaft fitted and the platter was suspended by a magnet surrounding the shaft on the chassis and an opposing magnet attached to thr underside of the platter.
This making it floating on a magnetic cussion, very imune to any kind of feedback, problem came when approaching record center, last two tracks or thereabouts, two quite forcefull magnets underneat the non shielding platter, resulted in some strange cartridge behaviour.
Some pressed their face stright down on the record surface, some got very light stylus force suddenly, moving coil was not useable on this nor was Decca cartridges, all in all a good ide not finished.
Ingvar
