Just picked up three new cartridges to play on a KD 500 with Grace 707 with a Shure M75ED.


Empire 999 VE/X, Ortofon FF15XE, and an AT LS 400. My questions are any of these compatible with my tonearm regarding compliance?.Also will any have the potential to be better than the Shure? It is a PITA to mount and align catridges in the 707. I also have a Pioneer PL12D which I could play with. Thanks in advance.
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Shurely you jest.......
Not so crazy, or at least not uncommon.

I sold my Denon 1250 cw infinity black widow to Someone who had been begging me to sell them just the tone arm and I refused.

In the end they bought it all just for the Widow.

So that tt might also have been junked or sold cheap minus its Widow.
As far as compliance goes I have to agree with Miller here.

There are combinations on paper that should never stand a chance of working and yet sometimes they just do!

My opinion even though it may be a pita to swap carts around there is only one sure way to know......

I have run some supposedly unholy combinations that worked out ok, maybe not something I would recommend say but not the "resonance all the way to Mexico" as was suggested it would be!

Out of those 3 the Empire just may put a grin on your face imho.