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Technics P33 cartridge question

Picked mine up on a Technics SL-QX200 in very nice shape. Probably buy a AT92 for it and put it back on CL.

Do you know anything about the P33 stylus?

BillWojo
 
Which specs are you looking for and for which model(s)? I might have some for you, I have been gathering data from brochures in the past.
 
Here are specs from some of the early models, showing that, if nothing else, things stay pretty much the same until you get to the really fancy and expensive models, but you can see a rough correlation between effective tip mass and frequency response bandwidth specs. So as a rough rule of thumb, stick with the styli that show the furthest treble extension if you can't find any that show response past 20kHz with a tolerance (eg, ±3dB). Get the boron-cantilevered ones if you can, or at least the titanium P540. Other than this, the specs don't leave much to choose from-- they're scarily consistent. If you find a NOS cartridge in its retail box, you'll find almost no information on or in it, but you will find that toleranceless frequency response spec. Shoot for something beyond 40 kHz. Of course, you might end up with a conical, because retail packaging doesn't give you that information. We need all the brochures and spec sheets we can find.
Technics P205CMk3, P22, P23, P28.jpg
 
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