I'm jealous! I love the XSP/3003 I have, but I don't have a usable original stylus (hence the jealousy). If the seller has another one like that, I'll take it
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I'm jealous! I love the XSP/3003 I have, but I don't have a usable original stylus (hence the jealousy). If the seller has another one like that, I'll take it
Nice snag! What table is that? Doesn't look quite like a Technics. Panasonic?
Footnote: Years later, still pondering the easiest/cheapest way to cobble together an IM stylus for stanwebber's blue Marantz CT-551 using available pieces. There are at least three approaches:
(1) Trim the plastic grip of a good ST-67 to fit the CT-551 (a toothpick and/or some poster putty may be needed). Done.
(2) Insert a good ADC/Sonus cantilever into a busted ST-67 or Kenwood N68. Carry on as (1). Done eventually.
(3) Find a proper-sized magnet, glue it into the magnetless CTS-551 stylus everybody's selling now, then do the cantilever transplant. Done.. maybe someday?
Magnet hounds will know where to find good magnets. IM cantilevers are another matter. I was lucky (?) to have good Sonus cantilevers stuck in uselessly hardened grommets, so I was glad to pull one out with extreme prejudice and insert it into a trimmed ST-66. ADC cantilevers will fit and are easier to get. Try for the smallest cross-section ones.
MARANTZ-SANYO-SONUS-KENWOOD-TOOTHPICK MONSTROSITY
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Fagedabowdit
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Looking at the specs of the TM20H which describes the diamond as a Fine Line, I think it’s probable that the closest replacement stylus for that is the Stylus 30, which is the one for the OM30/OM30 Super. The Stylus 30 is a nude fine line. The TM20H, apparently, is a bonded fine line.
Note that the Ortofon website suggests the Stylus 20 is the match for the TM20H. But the Stylus 20 is a nude elliptical for the OM20/OM20 Super, not a Fine Line. Perhaps in Ortofon’s thinking, the nude elliptical is closer to the bonded Fine Line in performance?
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juliet lima
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I’d hazard their thinking is coloured by marketing more than anything.
lini
just me...
On a side note, it would be nice, if you could make a pic (or two or three) of the tip of your 20H needle. Because I've once read somewhere, that the needles 20 and 20H for the LM/TM/Hifi Concorde generation were bonded FineLines - however, not with regular, but with sapphire bonding. But I can't find the source of that info anymore, so some pics would be helpful for verification.
Greetings from Munich!
Manfred / lini
Does anyone have any feedback on the
LP Gear T4P REFERENCE SERIES VML phono cartridge.
I’m wondering if I should just get that or take a chance on eBay for an old new stock of the 20H. I see one out there but fear that someone replaced the stylus 30 years ago and put the old one back in the package and tossed it in a box. Now someone found it and wants to sell it.
flavio81
Turntable technician
I'm 99% certain that ...
- The cartridge is made by Audio Technica
- The cartridge body is essentially the same as an AT85EP, which is more or less the same as a VM95 cartridge
- The stylus is made by Audio Technica
I bought the Reference Series I and it was an A-T cartridge with the A-T name/logo and an A-T stylus.
LP gear is giving good value for money, imo.
Has anyone tried here the LP Gear ML stylus replacements for the LP GEAR ATN3472ML stylus as an upgrade for the AT-85P or other AT T4P cartridges? I am thinking of doing the upgrade. Thoughts?
Here's a p-mount that's a bit off the well-beaten path:
![akai-pc-10-p-mount-cartridge-with-new-rs10-stylus-[2]-1951-p-a.jpg](/forums/data/attachments/3414/3414550-74df1ed6bfbba5c236bf12b29bca9c5c.jpg?hash=dN8e1r-7pc "akai-pc-10-p-mount-cartridge-with-new-rs10-stylus-[2]-1951-p-a.jpg")
Astatic sold it as the IM-25P (left). Akai sold it as the PC-10 (center and right). It's an induced-magnet design; the magnet is the square thing at the extreme front:
The stylus is the conical RS-10, indexed by Pfanstiehl as 814-D7, still available for less than $20. Surprisingly good sound. With some [unsightly] trimming, it serves very well in an otherwise-orphaned Audioquest AQ M-1 (a disguised Nagaoka) and a Tectron T85 IM. A stylus too good to be relegated to p-mount duty only.
The PC-10's overall look reminds me of the Marantz CT-551, but that cartridge has no body magnet.
My PC-10's example's inductance is ~600mH.
Astatic sold it as the IM-25P (left). Akai sold it as the PC-10 (center and right). It's an induced-magnet design; the magnet is the square thing at the extreme front:
The stylus is the conical RS-10, indexed by Pfanstiehl as 814-D7, still available for less than $20. Surprisingly good sound. With some [unsightly] trimming, it serves very well in an otherwise-orphaned Audioquest AQ M-1 (a disguised Nagaoka) and a Tectron T85 IM. A stylus too good to be relegated to p-mount duty only.
The PC-10's overall look reminds me of the Marantz CT-551, but that cartridge has no body magnet.
My PC-10's example's inductance is ~600mH.
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Thunderbox
Super Member
Very pleasing design.
search Jico, Thakker, or LPgear to name a few...
LP Gear replacement for Panasonic Technics EPS-24ES stylus
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NachoTemino
Active Member
No replacement stylus fall near the original EPS-24, specially speaking about the TF specs. Unless you want to spend big €€€ in a fancy shaped diamond, of course. Tyred of searching for a competent stylus I ended buying an AT-85EP, very cost-benefit effective.