The needle mounted in a cartridge on the tone arm of a turntable. It tracks the groove of a vinyl record and its vibrations are converted, by the transducer in the cartridge, into an audio signal.
« Back to Glossary IndexThe needle mounted in a cartridge on the tone arm of a turntable. It tracks the groove of a vinyl record and its vibrations are converted, by the transducer in the cartridge, into an audio signal.