[Jukebox-list] Early stereo jukes and tonearm damping

[Steve Wahl]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 06:19:25PM -0800, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> 
> At least Seeburg produced "honest" stereo with the channels reasonably 
> matched from the 222 on up.  Wurlitzer had a wacky setup with a 12-inch 
> speaker (different type) on each channel and a single 8-inch speaker on 
> one channel only on their stereo boxes up until about the 3000.

I have a 2410S with the wacky setup.  I don't think the smaller
speaker is really 8 inches, is it?  Last time I was in ther, it looked
to be more in the four to six inch range to me.  Maybe they varied the
size of it over the years?

I'm running with the original cartridge for now, it doesn't sound too
bad.  But you have to wonder what they were thinking with the HF
driver on only one channel.  EVEN IF you were designing for a mono
-like sound without external speakers, some of those early stereo
recording experiments - like the Beatles with Paul in one ear and John
in the other - would sound really bad with high frequencies from one
side only.

BTW, when Dr. Know-it-all in AJ talks about replacing the original
cartridge in these mechs, he talks about drilling out the
counterweight so it balances propperly.  I assume newer cartridges are
lighter than the original, and that causes the need to change the
weight.  Is there anything wrong with the idea of adding more weight
at the cartridge end instead, so you could remove it if you ever
wanted to change back?

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