[BC] Turntable Pickups...

[Burt I. Weiner]

The best cartridges I ever heard were made by B&O.  I forget the 
model but I used them at KFAC.  The problem with them was that you 
could bend the shaft by merely staring at them, but they sounded 
great.  The Stantons were the next best thing to the B&O's.  I never 
liked the sound of any of the Shure cartridges no matter which nail I 
tried in them.  At home I have a Technics SP-15 with, I think, a 
Stanton 681A.

Burt

>From: "Dana  Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
>
>Later on, Audio Technica made some great sounding professional cartridges.
>Shure also came out with the SC30, a quite rugged but fairly good sounding
>cartridge.
>The Stanton 500s were ok for AM, but I only used 681s on FM.
>Many ppl did not know that Pickering was also Stanton and many of the cheap
>Pickering cartridges were Stanton 500s. This was handy because I was able to
>buy Pickering/Stanton styli on sale cheaply at Lafayette when they were on
>sale there.
>
>-D
>
>From: Jerry Mathis <thebeaver32 at gmail.com>
>
>Later I discovered Stanton, and put them in all the stations I engineered
>for. Never had one bend, they would last until the tip wore out. Used the
>500 series in your typical CW and Rock stations, as that was the one
>designed for broadcast use, but at a classical music station I worked at, I
>put in the 681 series, IIRC. The styli had elliptical tips that were
>SUPPOSED to sound better and make the records last longer.
>
>Once I got away from Shure, I never looked back. They were junk as far as I
>was concerned.