MOVING MAGNET VS MOVING COIL CARTRIDGES

which is right for you?

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Which type of phono cartridge should you buy?

Your record player is made up of three main parts. There is the deck itself, which is responsible for spinning the disc and providing the home for the tonearm and cartridge. It's the cartridge that we're going to be focusing on here. This is the part that actually touches the record groove and generates the electrical signal that subsequently becomes the music you hear out of your speakers.

How cartridges work

A cartridge is essentially an electro-mechanical device. Let's go back to some GCSE physics. If you move a magnet near a wire then current is generated in that wire. It sounds so simple, but that physics principle forms the basis of how microphones, speaker drive units and phono cartridges all work.