“what’s the difference between the colored needles and the white ones?”
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Stylus construction. Within this series, the white one is a 3.0 mil bonded conical tip designed specifically for the playback of 78 RPM Shellac (SP) records. The remaining colored styli are for use with today's vinyl records. The blue is an economical 0.6 mil bonded conical tip, the green uses an 0.3 x 0.7 mil bonded elliptical tip for improved high frequency performance, the orange uses the same tip as the green but the stylus is nude, not bonded, giving the orange extended high frequency response and improved transient response.The red uses a nude micro linear shape tip on a square shank.The micro linear shape has a more narrow side radius and a longer vertical contact ridge. The micro linear tip is our longest wearing tip and it traces the groove with a high degree of accuracy and low noise. The brown uses a Shibata tip on a square shank. The Shibata profile is similar to the micro linear tip but it has a distinct, more focused sound with some mid-bass warmth. If your system sounds too bright, the Shibata tip can help tone it down. Nude styli will have improved transient response and detail compared to a bonded styli of the same shape and size. A square shank is more expensive to manufacture than the traditional round shank, but it allows for more precise indexing of the cantilever thanks to a corresponding laser cut square hole in the cantilever.
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