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I saw that replacement stylus are available for Yamaha MC705 cartridges. This cartridge is advertised as a moving coil cartridge. I always thought that MCs had the coils attached to the cantilever (which holds the stylus) and were hardwired into the cartridge. Thus the stylus is not replaceable and needs to be retipped.
Can someone explain how the MC-705 then has a replaceable stylus?
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This isn't really a Yamaha cart, it is made by Audio Technica, who made a few different series of MC cartridges with replacable styli in the early to mid 80's, I believe. MC-705 was the OEM cartridge on the PX-3 linear tracker, and it is actually quite a nice cartridge.
If you remove the stylus, the structure looks very much like an Audio Technica MM stylus, but instead of two tiny magnets at the cartridge end of the cantilever, there are two tiny coils.
The ATN3200, 3100, and similar styli from Audio Technica replace the styli in the MC-705. If you look at Ed's Cartridge Database, there is an entry for the MC-705 that details this.
It looks like a normal MC cart, just one piece.
Some MC carts (I have one by Empire) use replaceable stylus assembly that also incorporates coils.
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