Re: [ARSCLIST] speaking of ye olde 78 needles ...

[Richard Warren <richard.warren@xxxxxxxx>]

If you mean gentler on records, the reply is that they cause less 
wear but that they leave a fiber residue in the groove that some 
people find worse than mild wear and that is welded by heat to the groove.

You choose your poison.

Richard

At 05:14 PM 1/21/2008, you wrote:
> Does anyone sell cactus needles anymore? Can those types be used in 
> an original Victrola machine (pre-RCA)? No, I don't play good 
> condition 78's on this thing, I have a whole box of Salvation Army 5 
> cent disks to play on it, but I'm wondering if a cactus needle is 
> slightly gentler? Does it sound any better?
>
> -- Tom Fine