On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 17:07:18 +0100, Max Demian wrote:

On 28/07/2020 14:39, Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:22:26 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
wrote:
On Monday, 27 July 2020 16:53:29 UTC+1, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

Yes my Rogers Cadet has two plugs based on an octal system, and one
is for ceramic the other magnetic which has the riaa. I used a Decca
Deram. That was actually pretty amazing for a crystal pick up in its
day. One thing is of course when a mixer never had enough line
inputs,
ceramic cart settings on a pick up input could be used if one was
careful about matching and levels. Brian

I had a Decca Deram long ago - it was magnetic.

The Decca Deram cartridge is ceramic. Advertised as the first true
Hi-Fi ceramic.

Indeed. I used to sell them when I worked in a hi-fi shop!

Did anyone come in asking for a "gramophone"?

Oh yes. Particularly in the Worthing shop. They closed that in the end as
it was all pensioner time-wasters.

Further on the cartridge; I'm sure that there were non-ceramic Decca
cartridges too. But as far as I'm aware, the big white monstrosity was
ceramic.



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