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RE: Vintage Record Player Question -- General Electric Trimline 500

Posted by orthophonic on October 5, 2010 at 09:18:50:
The majority were pretty bad but they were not all record chisels. I have records played countless
times with a 1968 Zenith Micro Touch and they still sound near mint today played with a Moving Coil. I also have some Lps that were my cousins played on an Identical GE the poster has and they don't display any damage, and she played her records alot!

There were a few other good ceramics, a Euphonics and an E/V model come to mind and of course
the Weathers and the Grado ceramic.

All of these were low output for a ceramic, under 200MV, so that is probably the secret.
The ones that I have seen to cause excess wear were all 500MV and up.