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In Reply to: RE: Stanton/Pickering posted by jusbe on December 31, 2016 at 21:55:53
Happy New Year to you too!
Vickers used to offer an "upgrade" service to convert an existing high impedance body. I don't know whether they simply swapped out the body or genuinely replaced the coils.
Good luck!
BTW how did your P-mount cartridges work out? Were the tips well aligned? If so, you are a very lucky chap! My success rate with eBay scored Stanton/Pickering has been VERY poor indeed. I'm astonished at how bad the alignment is in some cases and I understand why they are turning up as "NOS" as they were probably store returns from unhappy customers back in the day. I had one stylus that was skewed by about 3 degrees!!
Regards Anthony
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats
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flood2 wrote:
"Happy New Year to you too!
Vickers used to offer an "upgrade" service to convert an existing high impedance body. I don't know whether they simply swapped out the body or genuinely replaced the coils.
Good luck!" ......In reality, you do not need a Pickering body. You simply buy a brand new(NOS) low output body for £199.90. The The ad is somewhat misleading. . . A needle that works qutite good at 1.5g VTF(+1g for the brush) can be found at LP-Gear : http://www.lpgear.com/product/PICKSXLV7500MK2S.html
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Good to know about the body - that was very misleading of them indeed!
Actually the price they are charging is still a very good price compared to the prices on eBay of low impedance cartridges with busted styli.
Back in the 90s, I was talking with John Kuykendall (who in the latter years was the VP of engineering at Stanton) about the Pickering UK site. He said they knew nothing about them and hadn't authorised them to use the branding specifically. He reckoned they must have bought up a large amount of stock from somewhere and were working their way through the stock. I've bought from them and the Pickering product IS the real deal. However, with some of the items like the head amp, they must be making them new. The head amp is described as being Made in Britain!
I'm very suspicious about the LPGear replacements. I bought a couple of their D98S replacements and they were absolutely dreadful. None of those 3rd party replacements have the tie-wire suspension design of the originals and there was a tremendous amount of distortion combined with poor tracking ability.
I guess for anyone without ANY styli needing to get a body going then they wouldn't have much choice but to buy them. For myself, I would stick to retipping my originals while they still work well.
Regards Anthony
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats
Despite no tie-wire, this VividLine needle sounds just beautiful
at 1.5g(+1g for the brush) VTF. A friend of mine have one for the
Pickering XSV-3000 and likes it a lot, also this at 1.5g VTF(Nota Bene).
At 1.25g VTF none of the needles tracks and therefore sounds
terribly bad.
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