100 LOUD Tone Needles ~ Victor Victrola/Talking Machine, Gramophone, Phonographs For Sale


100 LOUD Tone Needles ~ Victor Victrola/Talking Machine, Gramophone, Phonographs
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100 LOUD Tone Needles ~ Victor Victrola/Talking Machine, Gramophone, Phonographs:
$6.99

100 Brand New Loud Tone
Antique Phonograph Steel Victrola Needles
Loud, Medium and Soft Tone Available
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Premium Quality - Manufactured in The USAThe needles that I am selling are manufactured to the same specifications that The Victor Talking Machine Company developed as a standard nearly 100 years ago. Many other companies followed the same practice back in the day. These needles are appropriate for use with virtually all thumbscrew type reproducers like the Victor Exhibition, No.2, No.4, Concert, and Orthophonic, as well as hundreds of other manufacturers such as Columbia, Silvertone, Sonora, Brunswick, Zonophone, and so on. If your reproducer has a thumbscrew that holds the needle in place, these are what you need.They are suitable for playing 78 RPM records of the same era. If you are not certain that these will fit your machine, please feel free to ask questions. Loud Tone needles are suited for most listening environments. Medium Tone needles still give great full sound but with slightly reduced volume making them ideal for use in a confined area. Soft Tone needles are especially useful if you need even lower volume in order to keep peace in your home. Check my other listings for assortments of each type as well as larger quantities.Steel Needle Design and General Usage GuidelinesEven if you don\'t buy these needles I encourage you to study the information, educate yourself, and understand how to take better care of your records. A steel needle, whether nickel plated or not, regardless of the claims made by sellers to the contrary, should be used one time and then discarded. I will explain why this was and always has been necessary in the following paragraphs. I use plenty of pictures to help you understand what is really going on when a needle engages the groove of a record to produce sound. The text is not at all elaborate and the pictures are very easy to understand. If you have questions, I am here to help.With the aid of a digital microscope I have captured pictures of some of these other brands for your own evaluation. Human eyes cannot accurately perceive the low level of damage inflicted by inferior steel or caused by using a needle more than once. I have tested several of the needle brands sold on and I have compiled data to substantiate any and all claims that I make. During my testing I expected the competitor\'s needles to exhibit the same amount of wear as mine after a single play, but to my surprise they had much greater wear than anticipated as shown in the picture to the right. This is the result of a much softer (too soft, in fact) grade of steel in the competitor\'s needles. Based on the measurements provided it can be seen that the competitor\'s needle was actually worn beyond safe use before the end of one side of the record and that it would be irresponsible to use them more than once. The naked eye cannot adequately estimate this wear. My needle is pictured in the far right view and it also shows the wear after one play. This wear is exactly what you should anticipate and is consistent with the original design of both the records and the needles.The pictures to the left and near right show one of my needles that is new and unused. Note the rounded tip which is shown magnified 200 times. Needles actually start out as round tips; albeit compared to human skin they feel quite sharp to the touch because of their small radius. Once the needle tip is worn by the groove it becomes chiseled as shown. As the tip wears, it develops a sort of shoulder. By the end of just one play this shoulder is sufficiently worn such that it actually approaches the top of the groove wall. The picture above shows both a side and front view of the same worn needle. Continued use of the same worn needle will cause this shoulder to further widen, cut deeper, and ultimately plow into the sides and top of the groove wall literally scraping away sound. See that black dust? That was Enrico Caruso\'s voice. Wear, call it normal, call it abnormal, is a fact of life and it cannot be avoided altogether: the very physics in view show the reasons. But this is a call only to the intelligent to take reasonable steps and do what is responsible to preserve antique recorded sound while at the same time making use of the records. If you objectively consider this information and realize that it is not a mere personal opinion, but rather a genuine presentation of some simple physics, you will do much to conserve the records you own and help keep them available for the next generation of collectors. The notion of discarding a needle after one play is a fact of life and not a marketing scheme as some have suggested: it is simply part of the overall design scheme. It does not matter how long someone claims to have been selling their multi-use steel needles or if someone pretends that others boast of the imagined greatness of their products, the fact of the matter, based on irrefutable scientific evidence, is that all steel needles without exception, whether plated or not, should be used once and then discarded.The picture to the left shows a microscopic view (60 and 200 times magnification) of an actual record groove of a typical acoustic record. The shellac composition of early records is designed to wear the needle. Yes, you read that correctly. Early records must bear the mass of heavy acoustic reproducers (120 to 150 grams or more of tracking mass). This mass cannot be substantially reduced because in order to generate acceptable levels of sound strong mechanical force is necessary.Fact: Either the needle takes the greatest beating or the record does. This is of paramount importance to remember.Manufacturers long ago decided that needles were cheaper than records. The abrasive shellac compound is designed to wear away the needle point as shown in the pictures above. This is the normal expected result. A record groove is about .006\" wide in most early laterally recorded records. The groove, while it appears to the naked eye as a smooth spiral, is actually a wavy line as shown. The side to side (lateral) variations, called groove modulation, are what cause the needle to move and ultimately vibrate the diaphragm to produce sound.The modern nickel plating that is typically found on steel needles is applied using a thermoelectric nickel deposition process. This allows a thin layer (literally several molecules) of nickel to be deposited using a heated thermal bath of nickel electrolyte. The nickel is not applied to add mechanical strength to the needle so that it is able to resist wear. The nickel plate is not thick enough for such stress. It is applied to resist oxidation (i.e. prevent rust from forming) while the needles are stored. In the early days needles were often not plated and this is why you see so many heavily rusted parts inhabiting the crevices of your machines and even in otherwise unused needle packages. Problems with early nickel plating processes (and even worse, chrome, by the late 1920\'s) caused the plating to be deposited in very thick scale like layers which had a propensity to fall off during play, lodge in the groove, and wreak their own form of havoc. Nickel, compared to the record surface, is extremely hard and brittle and this is why in modern processes it is controlled and applied in molecular layers. In this manner there is no danger of nickel scales damaging the groove. In a good steel needle like those I am selling the amount of carbon present allows the needle to be very strong and then as the nickel wears to expose it, it does so uniformly. In the case of the competitor\'s aforementioned needle, the steel itself is much too soft. And in this case, the nickel plating does nothing to provide strength as is implied by the too often seen false advertising.If you are still reading, you are a person who obviously enjoys and cares about the present and future condition of records, and I ask you to simply and freely equip yourself with the simple 4th grade science just presented so that you can see through the misinformation that plagues the antique phonograph hobby. Reject all claims of \"multi-play\" and \"high grade\" nickel plating that promote more than one use. Some claim that their particular brand of needles can be used as much as 7 to 10 times. That is irresponsible and poor advice and now you understand why. Yet another instructs you to continue to use the same needle until the sound isn\'t clear anymore! That advice runs away from logic because if your gauge for changing a needle is waiting to hear degradation of sound quality, you\'ve already inflicted irreparable and totally unnecessary damage to your record. Still other folks will try to sell sapphire and other precious stone or metal tipped needles that were intended only for early electric phonographs of the 1930\'s with magnetic or crystal cartridges. Using such needles on early phonographs will wear your records out faster than you can shake a stick at.

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