[78-L] When a garden variety cartridge just won't do

[David Lennick]

I have only one Stanton cartridge and changing styli is a snap..it's the Shure 
where I don't like to keep sliding styli in and out. I've had too many of them 
begin to bend or get stuck, and over the years I acquired 3 or 4 SC 35 
cartridges, some of them gratis when other equipment was being discarded.

dl

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> Note to dl
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> I didn't win the lottery but I did drive to Chicago to pick up this six-pack a couple of years ago and found the sound from these eliptical styli very clean compared to previous styli.  I also purchased a set of Grado cartridges which had the 5 basic size conical styli, (skipping the 6th one, which I think is 8 mil for playing Pathays).  I got that set installed in head shells so that I just have to change the shell for the new size.  For the Stanton set I just have one mounted cartridge so I have to change the stylus.  I don't prefer this arrangement because of the wear and tear on the cartridge but the folks who sold it to me assured me that's not a problem.  I also got a Rek-o-Kut turntable from them which covers any possible need, (12 fixed speeds, including half speeds, a vary speed setting which pretty well covers any speed in between and able to accomodate 16 inch records).
> 
> If anyone's interested, my favourite all time cartridge was the Gold GE VRII.  With the sylus damped to prevent any vertical movement, I found surface noise very low compared to 78 stylus equipped stereo cartridges.  Then again, I haven't used one of these cartridges for over 40 years and my records were much newer then.
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> db