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Ceramic pickup magnets vs neodyneom.
Neodynium neodymium is presently the future for magnets for a large number of applications.
Due to their relatively high price and sensitivity to external conditions neodymium magnets are best only for applications where extremely high magnetic fields are needed such as powerful turbines and generators and particle physics experiments.
Neodymium seems to be the wave of the future especially with reduced weight and overall costs coming down.
Ceramic magnets are made of ceramic surprise.
They re also known as ferrite magnets and three out of four magnets you encounter in your life are ceramic.
In addition to ceramic magnets were also made of strontium and barium ferrite.
Each material of course has different magnetic properties and cost.
You need ceramic said nobody ever.
Alnico is nice and warm and great for blues.
Ceramic and neodymium magnets are each most appropriate for different applications.
Ceramic magnets came out in the 1960s and became popular because of the high cost of metal magnets.
Ceramic magnets have a wider frequency range than alnico and sound full and balanced when using high gain.
Whereas ceramic is used in metal as it sounds tight loud and cool.
So we often hear.
Due to the strong magnetic pull the alnico viii is a nice middle ground between the punch and clarity from a ceramic pickup and the sweet organic sound of an alnico which brings us to ceramic.
On the other side of the fence is neodymium magnets which is one of the two different types of rare earth magnets.
Its like tone woods or vintage ts9 vs new ts9 nobody except guitar players can hear or tell the difference.
You often hear that the sound of a pickup is dominated by the choice of magnet used in its construction.
Pickups speakers and also the latest hi fi headphones and microphones.
Ya the guy in the front row was screaming i hate the sound of your alnico v magnets.
By some players the ceramic magnets are given a bad reputation when compared to.
What differences will i hear between ceramic alnico and neodymium magnets.
A great place to start our alnico vs ceramic magnets discussion is with the composition of each type of magnet.