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RE: Stanton/Pickering

Posted by flood2 on January 7, 2017 at 23:05:35:
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.