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Can anyone help me identify this Audio Technica stylus?

cmarti

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Got this stylus today, it’s NOS without packaging and under magnification show to be unused.

Can someone please help me identify which cart it goes with?

https://imgur.com/gallery/buP6qui

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cm: Should sound pretty nice, too. That square or rectangular shanked nudie with sharp, true elliptical tip on tapered, anodised alu configuration has quite a few fans, myself included.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini
 
cm: Should sound pretty nice, too. That square or rectangular shanked nudie with sharp, true elliptical tip on tapered, anodised alu configuration has quite a few fans, myself included.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

It indeed sounds awesome, so glad I was able to find a matching cart for this NOS stylus.
 
cm: Well, actually it's not quite matching, as the AT2214SH should actually sport the low inductance generator version for CD4 and hence rather be intended to be used with the ATS14 - while the AT13E and its numerous renames sported the regular generator version instead. Hence your body/needle combo will sound a bit different compared to the originally intended body/needle combo - but that doesn't necessarily mean that it'll sound less good.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini
 
cm: Well, actually it's not quite matching, as the AT2214SH should actually sport the low inductance generator version for CD4 and hence rather be intended to be used with the ATS14 - while the AT13E and its numerous renames sported the regular generator version instead. Hence your body/needle combo will sound a bit different compared to the originally intended body/needle combo - but that doesn't necessarily mean that it'll sound less good.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini
Thanks for the info, I also own the original ATS14 stylus for this cart so I need to find the AT13e body. What are other body model variants I can use? I'll try my luck on the bay.
 
cm: Oh, I don't think, I could list all of these without getting old...

So I guess, the easiest way for you would be to simply go by the pictures and look for ATs, which look just like your AT2214SH, but have a 13 in the model designation - 'cause, unlike the AT13E with its black mounting frame, all the "renames" I'm aware of also have the white mounting frame, just like your 2214 does. And in case you'd happen to find one, that would look right, but doesn't happen to have a 13 in the model designation (like for example an AT84EX), you could always check KAB's pretty good AT overview page (this one: http://www.kabusa.com/frameset.htm?/at-1.htm) for confirmation, as the listed needle type should be 201-DEM then (= the Pfanstiehl code for the original ATS13), while the listed needle type for the AT14S renames would be 201-DQ instead. Most typically, however, the suffix (like the EX of the AT84EX) should already tell you, whether it's a rename of the AT13E (or rather a rename of the AT14S, like for example the AT85Sa or AT87SL).

But as you've already found out, that you like the sound of the ATS13 in combination with the low inductance generator, too, it wouldn't really seem to matter that much, whether you'd grab an AT13E body (or rename thereof) or an AT14S body (or rename thereof).

Oh, and of course the ATS13 would also fit onto the even older bodies of the AT-VM35 (the predecessor of the AT13E with original needle type VM35-EL) and the AT-VM35F (predecessor of the AT14S with needle type VM35-FD - alias JVC 4MD-20X (with 4DT-20X)) - but iirc, at least the AT-VM35 still sported a slightly different variant of the regular generator version.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini
 
Thanks for the info, I also own the original ATS14 stylus for this cart so I need to find the AT13e body. What are other body model variants I can use? I'll try my luck on the bay.

A member here is selling an AT13Ea cartridge (no affiliation) on Bartertown at the moment.
 
cm: You're welcome.

And regarding the AT13Ea: That belongs to the other sort of of AT13/14s, so your ATS13 wouldn't fit on that anyway.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini
 
cm: You're welcome.

And regarding the AT13Ea: That belongs to the other sort of of AT13/14s, so your ATS13 wouldn't fit on that anyway.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

Good catch! The AT13Ea would be a perfect match with the ATN13 not the ATS13. The ATS13 is group D and the AT13Ea is group C.
 
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