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		geon on June 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microscopic footage of a needle moving across the ... I wonder how/if the inertia of the needle affects the sound. It seems to me that at 20 kHz, the needle would bounce around in the track. I should do the math...

kragen on June 17, 2015 [–]

Yes, "high-frequency mistracking" is a thing in hi-fi record player design, resulting from high "effective tip mass".

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