WANTED: 1970's MM cartridge

[Wakefield Turntables]

What you got? I'm putting together a 1970's system so want MM if possible from the 70's.

[topoxforddoc]

Might be helpful to know what tonearm. Some 70s cartridges are high compliance, e.g. some of the ADCs, AKGs, Ortofon VMS20E, M20E, whereas the MCs of that era were low compliance, as one might expect.

[Wakefield Turntables]

Good point Doc. It's a Rega R200 bought from this very site. It will be sitting on a Thorens td160

[rectorydp]

I would have thought you would get some responses to this. Perhaps there aren't as many hoarders as I thought!
I have got two MM cartiridges from the 70s: Shure M75EDII and Rega R100. Both are owned by me from new and neither has been used since the early eighties. I don't know if they have degraded over time but they have been stored in their original boxes inside my houses (not in the garage). The R100 was widely used with the R200 and they would make a good match. Of course you may be wanting a more upmarket cartridge. Let me know if you are interested.

[Wakefield Turntables]

Well you just through some bait out and hopefully someone catches the hook,I'm not bothered by the fact there have been no bites, there is always eBay.

[Clive197]

Andrew I would have thought you would have jumped at the chance to go for the Shure M75EDII. That was the derigor(sic) cartridge of the 70's. Well worth the punt.

[Wakefield Turntables]

Andrew I would have thought you would have jumped at the chance to go for the Shure M75EDII. That was the derigor(sic) cartridge of the 70's. Well worth the punt.

Yep it's on my radar, I may be getting a nagaoka, a brand I've never tried. I do own a Shure v15 mk3 but I'm saving this for better quality vinyl recordings when the mood takes.