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Hello! I'm just following up on price, availability and shipping to the USA.

Eddie
eddieaudio@gmail.com

I am definitely interested

Email eddieaudio@gmail.com

As unusual as this head is, no one that I know of is cutting with one, and as yours is untested there is no way it is worth $10,000. The head had a very short life because records kept getting louder and Fairchild dropped out of the recording equipment business. The head is useless without the elect...

I have only embossed on polycarbonate (CD/DVD blanks) with a very old RCA mono head. What progress I've made seemed to point toward using a standard cutting stylus but in reverse (not cutting but embossing). I haven't really experimented with heat, because that type of cutting stylus has very little...

A heated stylus definitely lowers noise and improves high frequency response. It's certainly worth experimenting with, provided you have suction (to prevent the chip from sticking to the stylus and catching fire). The Westrex 2B manual indicates four variations of the SP-77232 tapered stylus: detail...

I would think Al Grundy would be one of your options...

I am only guessing that a "real" stereo head would be a challenge to mount and perhaps too heavy for the the M12 - but if you have an M12 I'm interested (he-he). At the moment, I'd be happy to cut mono...

A long time ago I discovered the soundscriber dictation machine that I wish I had now. The best I fond to "cut" on (those things emboss) is the acetate used for project folders....

I heard the DMM cutting stylus was diamond - is that true? Are they still available?

I had a soundscriber dictation machine that I picked up in a st Louis resale shop back in t '75. Wish I still had it. Drove it with a hifi amp using te EQ to approximate an RIAA curve. I still have the discs I "embossed" on it - I found clear acetate - the kind used for project folders - worked the ...