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Grado 8MZ identity verification

nkorah

nkorah

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Hi,
Just purchased a new Grado 8MZ stylus, never-mind from which vendor for now, and received this -

Here are few images of the stylus and it's tip -

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Can anyone please help me verify the identity of this needle?
thanks!

Niv
 

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This is the tip of an 8MZ:


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Looks like a simple shipping mistake, should be fairly painless to rectify - just send the supplier your first picture.

Also, I do not believe that the color of the "dots" on the 8MZ are black, so that is definitely a Black 1 stylus.
 
mprince said:
Looks like a simple shipping mistake, should be fairly painless to rectify - just send the supplier your first picture.

Also, I do not believe that the color of the "dots" on the 8MZ are black, so that is definitely a Black 1 stylus.
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no color dots on the 8MZ, just hand etched as previously noted.
 
Well,
emailed customer service and they instructed me to ship it back and they will replace it with the right needle.
Now I'll have to wait till christmas (well "Hanuka" actually) to enjoy it.
Not so horrible since I don't have any matching TT or tonearm for it right now. It's intended for my Grado G2 cart, and a certain Thorens TD160 i'm planning to renovate :)

Thanks again for the help!
Niv
 
nkorah said:
Well,
emailed customer service and they instructed me to ship it back and they will replace it with the right needle.
Now I'll have to wait till christmas (well "Hanuka" actually) to enjoy it.
Not so horrible since I don't have any matching TT or tonearm for it right now. It's intended for my Grado G2 cart, and a certain Thorens TD160 i'm planning to renovate :)

Thanks again for the help!
Niv
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I'm using an 8MZ with my G2 as well. You can expect to have to lower the parallel resistive loading or else it will sound too bright.
 
Correction - My working cartridge is a Grado G-1+

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Sadly, My G2 has a dead channel. I'll try and operate on it sometime soon - can't do any harm...
:)

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I have an 8mz and the diamond appears bonded - not nude. I think I read that they made a change. 8MZ is etched into the plastic.
 
I use an 8MZ on my G1 cart and it seems magical at a regular 47K loading: not bright, but rich, clean, well-balanced. Trust your ears, and if you need to play with the resistance, do it.
 
Lorenzo47 said:
I have an 8mz and the diamond appears bonded - not nude. I think I read that they made a change. 8MZ is etched into the plastic.
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that is true. the re-issue of the 8mz comes with a bonded diamond. When the original inventory ran out.......8MZ-v, the request for the stylus was high, and John Grado started having them made again. Or uncle Joe "advised" him to do so. I still have an original 8MZ stylus along with the re-issue, the sonics are the same.

stop by, listen to the 8MR, 8MX, 8MZ........you ain't that far :bigok:
 
cnolanh said:
I use an 8MZ on my G1 cart and it seems magical at a regular 47K loading: not bright, but rich, clean, well-balanced. Trust your ears, and if you need to play with the resistance, do it.
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odd........the G1 was never suggested to load at 47K.......the paperwork said 10K or above. If it sounds right in your system, then that's the load for it, for you. I could never get mine to flesh out that high.
 
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