Replacing your Pickering stylus

This brand of needle is becoming very hard to find in the genuine USA made form. We suggest that when you are ready to replace your Pickering stylus, you consider the following:

If you are just dusting off an old turntable that has been sitting in the attic for a couple decades, or have just picked up a player at a recent garage sale or ebay, and you plan to play records occasionally, say once a week or so, then you may wish to consider the entry level aftermarket conical needles found on our website.

If you are familiar with the good quality of your Pickering stylus, or plan to convert LP's to CD's, or will be playing records several times per week and have a well kept collection, then you will likely want to at least get a better quality elliptical needle. The aftermarket (non-genuine) needles are still available, but the genuine versions are almost totally gone.

Is it possible? Can turntable needles really be found at record speed without spending hours in research? Well, Yes! We have worked hard so you don't have to. Our site took about 18 months to launch. We have assimilated over 150,000 original cartridge, needle and model numbers from well over 100 manufacturers.

Next we funneled them down to about 1000 needle product pages. Each product page is packed with technical specs, special availability notes where applicable and alphabetical listings of all the part numbers to which that needle was ever manufactured or cross referenced.

Then we produced a stylus gallery for every needle we sell or have sold. Close to about 1000 and rising. Most of which rotate in 8 to 12 positions so you can view every possible desirable angle. And finally organized all products by brand, usage type etc so you can browse effectively without any part number. Just click on visual matching for any turntable needles you need and you're there.

The term record player needles is generally interchangeable with such terms as record player stylus, turntable needle, turntable stylus and so on. All these terms are interchangeable. However the term record player needles generally refers to the older style flat, almost two dimensional needle assembly that usually flips over . It flips over in order to play 78rpm records on one side and 33's and 45's, both known as LP or Long Play.

Another distinction is that record player needles or record player styli are installed in a ceramic type cartridge as opposed to the more modern magnetic cartridge that usually has a more cubical or somewhat three dimensional needle assembly.

Terms such as turntable or deck generally refer to newer players and so would have magnetic cartridges, either moving coil (MC), moving magnet (MM), or dual magnet (DM) type. To begin look under the PRODUCTS heading to the left.