Laboratory Jottings
Paillard . Pick-up ---e BEL, SMHHTONS, Ltd., Auckland, have sent us.for test a Paillard Pick-up and its performance has been well up to standard. It is a very neat job. and is. finished in black. The _ pick-up head is arranged on a free hinge and ‘the rest of the arm is quite rigid, as fat as vertical motion is concerned. A small but important feature of this movable head is that it can be raised right back on the stationary part and will not fall over on to the rejgird at the slightest movement. Althigh of ample size, the head is not urjduly heavy and tracks well on recosds. Hyerything on the instrument is solid and well finished. The volume control is cutely housed in the swivel and is adjusted by thumb. Our tests show that while it covers a range of. frequencies from below 40 to 8,000 it is especially good on the bass. We do not mean by this that it over emphasises. the bass, for it does not, -but it gives a slightly better output ait low frequencies than at high. We found that while our standard pickup gave-a third of the output of thé Paillard at 48 cycles, it was four times as great at 6,000. At the middle frequencies, we found the output was slightly greater than our own. Generally speaking it could be said that the pick-up gives good loud signals ' over quite a wide range. It begins dropping off at 5,000. 4. A perfect pick-up would respond’ equally to frequencies from 25 to 10,000 but in practice even response from 50 to 5,000 is considered good. Most of the frequencies can be brought through with perfect clearness and instruments can be quite . well picked out. Our tests have shown us that the Paillard is a first class instrument and that it is not unduly hard on records.
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Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 25, 2 January 1931, Page 15
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315Laboratory Jottings Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 25, 2 January 1931, Page 15
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