Pickup
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Pickup's – pamper your record player
If you want to lift the sound from your record player, a new pickup can do wonders. A pickup is the small "lump" that must sit at the tip of the tone arm. The pickup housing is typically made of metal, plastic or wood and functions as a wrapper for the interior that generates the sound. Mainly there are two groups of pickups, namely MM (Moving Magnet) and MC (Moving Coil). However, there is also a third group of pickups - a type called MI (Moving Iron).
MM pickups will usually be the cheapest, as they are less demanding to assemble. MC pickups will therefore be in price ranges that require a better record player. Typically, turntables in the price range NOK 3,000-15,000 will be/will be equipped with an MM pickup and more expensive turntables with MC pickups. There are exceptions and it pays well, when investing in a record player, to buy as good a record player as the economy allows and then save a little on the pickup, since it will have to be replaced at some point anyway.
The price differences on pickups are often due to the fact that the grinds on the small diamond at the end of the needle tube are different. The finer the diamond is cut, the better (more precisely) it reads the groove and gets information that the more primitive cuts will have trouble with.
At Lydspecialisten you can always have your pickup fitted, and we are always ready to advise you before you buy your pickup. You can easily contact us right here .
