Pickering XV-15/625E

[dowser]

Anyone familiar with this cartridge - I got one attached to an EB101 I picked up recently, with stock D625 stylus. Pretty impressed with sound it makes, not sure how much is the deck/arm, and how much the cartridge?


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Thanks, Richard


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[Kvaal]

Rememer it had good reputation ca. 1980.

[stewart]

£149.90 last UK price. Vickers hifi york.

[Virtual-Symmetry]

I use one.. Absolute perfect Synergy between my SME & 'A60' amp.

You flogging that one Rich?

[topoxforddoc]

It was a pretty good cartridge back in the early 80s. Similar to its relative, the Stanton 881.

[Virtual-Symmetry]

My all time fav Cartridge was the Pickering 'XLZ-7500S' with matching 'PLZ' head amp. Sadly the original Line contact Styli for it has come to the end of its life & no longer available. When they were they were a gob smacking £300.00 a pop.

[dowser]

Thanks all - I may sell the Pickering, need to try one of my spare dl-110s on it first. The deck is for a friend...if he likes it, otherwise I'll eBay that too...I have 5 TTs already...no space for a 6th ;)


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[Virtual-Symmetry]

Yeh try the 'DL-110' im sure your like it better ;)

[Floyddroid]

I had one of the Pickering Moving Iron jobbie's and it was lovely. Oddly enough i got that from Vickers. They bolted it into an RB300 for me when i bought a Gyrodec from them. It was an excellent piece of kit. I wouldn't be in too much of a hurry to move this on.

[Barry]

Pickering always had a good reputation for no-nonsense fixed coil cartridges. Like the equivalent Stanton 681 and 881 devices, the performance can usually be improved by removing the leading brush assembly.

[petrat]

Dunno ... I quite like the look of the old road-sweeper ...

Was it this one that was supposed to be a great match with the SME 3009 improved?

[Virtual-Symmetry]

Compliance is about middle of the road but works perfect with my S2 Imp. The brush really does a good job but i do not have it fitted cos its noisy

[Barry]

Compliance is about middle of the road but works perfect with my S2 Imp. The brush really does a good job but i do not have it fitted cos its noisy

That's why I said the performance could be improved by removing the brush.

[walpurgis]

That's why I said the performance could be improved by removing the brush.

Absolutely, tracking brushes on cartridges and dust sweep arms are a big 'No No' in my view. They just feed noise into the system.

[Tolstoi]

I had two of them and loved them. I prefer the sound of the Pickering over the thin sound of the Denon DL-110 which I really never liked. But the XV-15 really fitted in the kind of sound I'm looking for in every cartridge until today. It's a pity they discontinued their products.

[Virtual-Symmetry]

Pretty impressed with sound it makes.



Been saying that but Hi-Fi Know it alls seem to think different. Saying that they are cheap so they would not entertain it anyway regardless how good they are

[jusbe]

It has been known for them to be used in exalted company...

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[Barry]

What arm is that?

[jusbe]

What arm is that?

Da vinci grandezza tonearm. Not mine (sadly).