AT50MC

[2325Veepster]

Hello there!

I just pulled a 50mc from a cabinet in my parents house. It has a dead channel (tested with multimeter) but with these wouldn’t a new stylus also fix a dead channel because it’s all in the stylus anyway?

That leads me to a follow up, am I correct that if I get a ATN30/31E it won’t work well with my Marantz 2325 and I’d need a new separate phono stage?

 

[Grbluen]

Nope, the problem could be inside the cartridge. A dvm could be used to determine if the coils are intact.

 

[JP]

Problem is typically a coil which isn’t in the cartridge body on these, so the OP is correct.

 

[lini]

(...) but with these wouldn’t a new stylus also fix a dead channel because it’s all in the stylus anyway?

Most likely yes, but if you have a multimeter at hand, you could always check, whether the wiring from the needle contacts of the body to the output pins is still ok.

(...) am I correct that if I get a ATN30/31E it won’t work well with my Marantz 2325 and I’d need a new separate phono stage?

Yes, with an ATN31E or ATN30E you'd indeed either need an MC step-up transformer or an MC pre-pre-amp, to be used in combination with the MM phono section of your Marantz, or an external, MC-capable phono stage solution (be it an MC-capable phono stage or an MM phono stage together with a step-up transformer or MC pre-pre-amp), to be used in combination with one of the line-level inputs (Aux or Tape 1/2 In) of your Marantz. However, if you're lucky, you might as well still be able to dig up an ATN30HE, which is the high-output variant of the ATN30E and can be used with an MM input.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[2325Veepster]

Ok, I’ll look up how to check those pins since I have the meter handy, though it seems like the costs associated with finding the rare HE or getting equipment to make the also expensive E versions won’t make this worth it for me. Seems like the money would go better into my MM Shure 93E fancy stylus options or just getting a different cart altogether.