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I had the cartridge rebuilt by west tech services and I bought a needle from Ed Crockett because I wasn't thinking about a new needle not being part of the cartridge rebuild. In the future, I'll know to purchase a new needle when having a cartridge rebuilt. Last night, I put it all together and I must say that for a basic 3 tube record player with a 5" speaker, it sounds real nice. I had to go with a 2 mil "all speed" sapphire needle, as that's all Mr. Ed had; but, it still sounds decent. If anyone has one of these old 78 rpm record players or radio/record player combinations, I'd highly recommend spending the extra money to have the original cartridge rebuilt. In the past, I've modified these players to use a more modern, lower ouptut ceramic cartridge and the results are not as good. I have several radio/phonograph combinations to restore and I will be having the original cartridges rebuilt in those.
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