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In Reply to: RE: Different version of Stanton 681EEE posted by flood2 on June 23, 2017 at 23:34:50
Flood2 ..very interesting. I had a 681EEE in the old days, and thought at the time the sound was very good. I really don't remember the sound or my means of evaluation, but just my general sense.
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The 0.2x0.7mil nude tip was/is very good. My father had the 681EE which precedes the EEE and had slightly lower tracking ability. The EEE had improved suspension.
I have the D3500E and D78E styli for my low impedance bodies and they are superb performers. I believe that these bodies with a Stereohedron tip represent the pinnacle of Stanton's achievements and (to me) handily beat moderately priced LOMCs such as the Denon DL301/II. I wouldn't go so far as to say they could compete against a DL304, but certainly they were "underpriced" and very definitely underappreciated for the performance.
The MkIIS was released at the peak of Stanton's reputation IMO and everything went downhill in the late 80s/early 90s through poor quality control.
Regards Anthony
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats
Don't you wonder why they allowed the downhill slide?? If they worked so hard to make it right, why would they nullify that effort??
Disappointing wasn't it? Plus short sighted too.
The samples I have from their heyday are brilliant examples of engineering. I had never seen anything but PERFECT alignment in their products up until the mid 80s. So the moment I got styli that had azimuth errors of even 1° I thought something was wrong. All the styli I bought for the 681 in the 90s (all mk3) had errors of 3 to 4° as a MINIMIUM. I even had batches that were 9° in error!!!! I had taken to buying styli in batches to cherry pick the good ones. In the end it simply didn't make economic sense given the effective cost of finding a "good one" and I turned to AT and other brands.
My guess is that when it "appeared" that the writing was on the wall for vinyl, they started to widen the acceptable process limits in order to maximise earnings and minimise waste.
From what I can gather from different knowledgeable sources getting good staff who had the necessary skill and quality focus were very hard to come by.
Regards Anthony
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats
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