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Pickup's – pamper your turntable
If you want to improve the sound of your turntable, a new pickup can do wonders. A pickup is the small "lump" that sits at the tip of the tonearm . The pickup housing is typically made of metal, plastic or wood and acts as a wrapper for the internal components that generate the sound. There are mainly 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 often be the cheapest, as they are less demanding to assemble. MC pickups will therefore be in price ranges that require a better turntable . Typically, turntables in the price range of 3,000-15,000,- will be equipped with an MM pickup and more expensive turntables with MC pickups. There are exceptions and it can be worthwhile when investing in a turntable to buy as good a turntable as the economy allows and then save a little on the pickup, since it will have to be replaced anyway, at some point.
The price differences in pickups are often due to the different cuts of the small diamond at the end of the needle tube. The finer the cut of the diamond, the better (more precisely) it reads the groove and retrieves information that the more primitive cuts will have difficulty with.
At Lydspecialisten you can always have your pickup installed, and we are always ready to advise you before you buy your pickup. You can easily contact us right here .
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