In this video, we explain the #1 issue with cheap record players such as the Crosley Cruiser: Tinny-sounding audio from the ceramic cartridge that they're equipped with.

Ceramic cartridges are meant to be paired with a high impedance input of at least 1 megaohm, or at least, a velocitizer if using a MAG phono input. Without either method, you get the infamous tinny, thin-sounding audio with non-existent bass. A standard line input is not enough for a ceramic cartridge, and the low impedance acts as a high pass filter, resulting in the bass basically being non-existent. With tube equipment, this wasn't really an issue as the impedance was practically infinite, but with solid-state equipment, this was the main issue.

In most of today's cheap record players, they simply connect the cartridge to a standard line input, but very few of them actually bothers to match the impedance so the cartridge performs at its best.

Schematic at end of the video is, to properly load the ceramic cartridge, and the section for "MAGNETIC" is the schematic for Sonotone's Velocitizer for using a ceramic cartridge on a standard phono preamp. What this does is, convert the amplitude response of a ceramic cartridge into velocity response.

Moving magnet, moving coil, and even moving iron cartridges are constant velocity pickups, while a ceramic cartridge and a crystal cartridge are constant amplitude pickups.
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