The P-Mount owners club
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Vinylmasters
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Vinylmasters
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Is there anyone on this side of the pond that has this? I hate the idea of ordering from Japan and waiting a month for it to arrive.
I have ordered mine from EMJ Music on the bay. Ships from Japan and takes about 1 week.
SA-708
Appalachian-American
The cartridge has arrived, with a suspect stylus. Looks like my two best options are a red ND250G (probably from Gary @ VOM) or the yellow ND250E from JICO. There does not seem to a Pfanstiehl code for this cartridge.
Are you the person that beat me out on eBay for one of these? If so, you got a great deal - just over $100 I think.
I snagged an Audio Technica AT152lp off the Bay for little of nothing last week, for future rehab of my Technics Sl-dl5.
Looked good, both sides measured nearly identical resistances, but I still wanted to
hear it. I generally stay away from 1/2" mount adaptors, but didn't have much choice since my SL1350 was going to be the test bed. An ATN140lc stylus snapped on nicely, so I ballparked the VTA and stepped back to listen. Much to my surprise, it sounded like my Signet TK7lca with a ATN155lc stylus. Several records did nothing to diminish the performance, so I grinned and chalked up another score to 'I'd rather be lucky than good'.
Looks like this cart may up the priority of getting the linear track online.
Looked good, both sides measured nearly identical resistances, but I still wanted to
hear it. I generally stay away from 1/2" mount adaptors, but didn't have much choice since my SL1350 was going to be the test bed. An ATN140lc stylus snapped on nicely, so I ballparked the VTA and stepped back to listen. Much to my surprise, it sounded like my Signet TK7lca with a ATN155lc stylus. Several records did nothing to diminish the performance, so I grinned and chalked up another score to 'I'd rather be lucky than good'.
Looks like this cart may up the priority of getting the linear track online.
MRL_Audio
RIP 2022
Got it from there. Seller still has another for sale. Current listing is priced favorably. There is a new one posted with a BIN from another source. States body used, stylus assembly is new. Hard to tell.
Thanks for the heads-up!!
I recently picked up a Technics SL-QD3 TT that had a wonderful Audio Technica AT-132EP cart on it. I liked it so much that I tried mounting it on a headshell to use on my SL1200MKII but it wasn't a good match. When it tracked well it sounded FANTASTIC but it just wasn't properly tracking 50% of my records.
So I put the AT-132EP away for now, and I purchased an AT3482P for the SL-QD3 because it has a conical tip stylus. I mostly intend to play mono records on this system and this cart works great for this.
So I put the AT-132EP away for now, and I purchased an AT3482P for the SL-QD3 because it has a conical tip stylus. I mostly intend to play mono records on this system and this cart works great for this.
I like my Shure V15 Pmount cartridge more than the others I have.
I don't know where I will get a replacement stylus tho. Kinda worried about it actually.
I don't know where I will get a replacement stylus tho. Kinda worried about it actually.
SA-708
Appalachian-American
The arm in the photo is a Dynavector.
Hugo65
Well-Known Member
I found a NOS Gamma (anyone ever heard of this brandname?) replacement stylus for my EPC 51 cart at a local shop last week. It's a 30 year-old+ conical and it is well within the 20mm range (from back of cart to stylus tip) that linear tt's require so as not to mistrack. In fact, it tracks and sounds pretty good at 1.25g. And it barely set me back US$ 15 worth in local coin. As some of you say, I'm a "happy camper"! 
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Vinylmasters
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Been listening to this the last few days to play it in a bit. Popped on an old copy of Herb Alpert's hits to see how well it did with horns - and it blew me away. Didn't see that one coming. Figured it would fall apart, but handled it like a champ. VERY solid and warm bottom end on it too.