anyone addicted to SHURE carts from the 1970s?

[Wakefield Turntables]

I've about for now and think they make a fantastic second hand purchase

[brian2957]

I was over at Grant's place the other day . He's using a Shure M55E with a NOS stylus and it sounded excellent .

[walpurgis]

I like them. The various M75's and the M91ED are my favourites.

[Wakefield Turntables]

I was over at Grant's place the other day . He's using a Shure M55E with a NOS stylus and it sounded excellent .

You get all over the place your like the scarlet
pimpernel

[brian2957]

I like to visit my forum friends Andy . I was also delivering a valve to him for his DAC . Most of the troops up here live quite close and they all have gear I enjoy listening to :)

[Lee Henley]

Always been a fan of the Shure M75ED cart, for me they don’t do a lot wrong

[cuddles]

I preferred my M75-6S over the M55 E with a Jico stylus. It just did everything right - gutsy and more heft. The great thing is that they are cheap enough to do a bit of experimenting.

The thing is that it has itself been ousted by an even cheaper cart :eek:

[montesquieu]

I preferred my M75-6S over the M55 E with a Jico stylus. It just did everything right - gutsy and more heft. The great thing is that they are cheap enough to do a bit of experimenting.

The thing is that it has itself been ousted by an even cheaper cart :eek:

I'm a big fan of the Shure SC35C, which admittedly needs a heavy arm but really sings with rock music. The Shure M3D is a bit more refined, I had one with a Jico stylus and currently have one with an original Shure stylus (quite rare these days). Both are superb, though work in quite different setups to the others mentioned.

I also use an M44 with special wide tips for 78.

[Wakefield Turntables]

I've got the M55E with JICO Neo SAS/S stylus, the SC35S (awaiting stylus), and two V15 mk3 with various stylii.

[narabdela]

M55E, M75ED, V15 III. Owned them all. Cracking cartridges which can show a clean pair of heels to many modern MM offerings. :)

[kininigin]

Another fan of the SC35C. Amazing cart in my opinion. I have NOS styli and a Jico Neo SAS Saphire styli. I haven't really run the Jico in yet. It's done a few hours. Once i get my headphone rig up and running and i get a lighter headshell for it, it will go back on and put through it's paces.

[spendorman]

M95 HE is my favourite so far.

[GrahamS]

The V15 III was the standard reference cartridge used by QC in my pressing plant.

[Jazid]

I made a terrible error and replaced an M75ed11 with a P77. Jesus, I stopped listening to records for nigh on twenty years, never worked out why until I put the Dual/Ortofon cart that came with my deck back on. What a total, irredeemable POS that A&R was. Still have the Shure , P77 got broken. Not soon enough though.

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[walpurgis]

I have an old Pioneer PL-12D with an M75EDII. It has nowhere near the resolution of my other turntables, but it definitely makes music!

[narabdela]

I have an old Pioneer PL-12D with an M75EDII. It has nowhere near the resolution of my other turntables, but it definitely makes music!

A classic combo that started thousands out on the road to hi-fi, but it's the Pioneer that's the limiting factor, not the Shure imho.

[struth]

Got 2 m55's. One with fancy jico sas and other with nos. I prefer the latter oddly.