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In Reply to: RE: Retired; want'a play vinyl; should I drag out my old Garrard SL95-B? Needles? posted by dbtrail@gmail.com on January 24, 2015 at 20:03:14
Definitely hop over to the Vinyl "board" and get some "skinny" from those "inmates".
Except 78s, all your old discs can be played back with the same stylus. A stereo stylus rides towards the bottom of mono 45 and 33 grooves.
I can't say I know your Garrard. I'm guessing it is not the most gentle or sophisticated of things and I would look towards a "rugged" cartridge with a spherical stylus. I've posted a link below to a modestly priced, spherical sylus, Shure DJ cartridge. DJ carts. are designed to take rough handling and I suspect will do better than a "finicky" HIFI model in your old Garrard TT. BTW, you can buy a 78 stylus for the Shure cartridge.
Eli D.
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The SL95B was way up in the Garrard lineup, I think considered similar to the Dual 1219 in terms of price and quality. A conventional arm design, not the funky zero radius type.
In my 1970 Allied catalog, it is listed as Garrard's finest turntable, for perfectionists, at $129.51 including the 1-cent artridge.
The same catalog lists the Dual 1219 at $159.51
The 1-cent cartridges include the Empire 888E, Pickering V15/ATE3 or the Shure M93E, all stickering at $39.95 For an extra $5 you could go with the Empire 888TE, Pickering XV15/AME or Shure M91E, all stickering at $49.95
I would not think it any problem at all dropping a currently available cartridge in this rather sophisticated arm riding on needle bearings.
That is GOOD news. In absence of info., I was being very cautious.
I would suggest staying away from Grado, as the unshielded bodies are VULNERABLE to hum pickup.
Eli D.
Eli: Thanks. I bookmarked your link to the Shure cartridge. I'm going to have to look over my Garrard to see how hard it will be to switch between 78 and the lower rpm needles. I guess, ideally, it would be nice to have two turntables..one for each. (grin) I always get myself into things worse than first imagined. I did post to the vinyl group and am getting help there too. Sounds as if, (pun), that my 95-B TT will work better than I first thought.
Dennis
Dennis
+1 for Eli Duttman's advice to visit the Vinyl Asylum with this. :-)
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