[Jukebox-list] Tempo 1 Cartridge-Help please

[Jens Hultgren]

Well, I have had perhaps a dozen Tempo 1. 1 or two were stereo, they used
the same ceramic cartridge that was used in later stereo models.
But I never ever saw a GE VRII cartridge in a Tempo (which does not mean
that they never used it - only means I never saw it). I am very familiar
with the GE wince the AMIs used it (have a bag full of used ones if anyone
is interested). I am pretty sure the ones that still had the original
cartridge used a Columbia ceramic cartridge of poor quality - it was always
broken.
I still have a real nice 1475 in storage. I could check on it tomorrow,
perhaps.

    Jens

On 12/5/06, Francois Villeneuve <francois.v at videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi Jenz,
>
> I know in my schematic and in my manual it says the mono version used the
> GE
> VR II magnetic cartridge.
>
> I think the ceramic was for the stereo versions.
>
> I was able to find that the GE VRII cart has an output on 10mV minimum and
> the NP/AC also has an output of 10mV, so the NP/AC really seems to be the
> prefect replacement.
>
> Anyone else has anything to say about this ?
>
> Bye  :-)
> Francois
>
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> Hultgren
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>
>
> The Tempo 1s I have had (just a few) had ceramic cartridge, a few were
> stereo.
>
> Maybe they came both ways? Perhaps they were different for export? Perhaps
> they changed it in mid year?
>
> Somebody check the schematics.
>
> Jenz
>
>
> On 12/5/06, francois.v at videotron.ca <francois.v at videotron.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks guys for your input.
> >
> > The amp guy used my speakers, my junction box, my volume control and my
> > tone arm with my cartridge !
> >
> > Anyhow, I connected the cartridge with the two signals together and the
> > two grounds together.
> > Anything wrong with that ?
> >
> > When I use a ceramic cart, I get louder sound, but it is not as nice as
> > with the NP/AC.
> > I wonder if the amp was ever modified to be used with a ceramic only
> > cart.  When I bought it, it had a damaged Astatic 51 type cart on it
> (which
> > doesn't mean it was original by the way)
> >
> > My amp guy will try my amp in another mono Tempo 1 with a "known good
> amp"
> > to see if there are any differences and we will go from there.
> >
> > Do you think the NP/AC might be defective ?  I always believed that a
> cart
> > was either good or bad.
> >
> > I might try to find an original GE VR II and get it rebuilt.
> >
> > Any other ideas ?
> >
> >
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