Well, I haven't created it; Peter Liebert of nipperhead.com did. The description of the device is at http://www.nipperhead.com/old/act/ . It's not really a homemade Archeophone. It is only a modern electric reproducer that fits onto most old phonographs where the acoustic reproducer would. The rest of the mechanics of the phonograph are left up to your pre-existing machine. But, yes, it does use a modern cartridge wired for vertical pickup that tracks the cylinder in roughly the same place that the acoustic pickup would. There are RCA jacks on the top of the reproducer that plug into your sound system. As I stated earlier, I plug mine into a microphone input on my mixer; then send the signal to my CD recorder or computer. Sammy Jones > Do we assume, then, that you have created a "home-made Archeophone," > by mounting a modern cartridge, wired for "vertical signal," so as to > put > the pick-up needle in the same position as the original Edison > reprocucer's > needle?! > > Steven C. Barr