2. vintage
  3. 156479-83864

Need help identifying this MC cartridge? Specs would be great!

This cartridge came to me maybe 15 years ago in a Systemdek XII / profile arm.  I tried it then, thought it was good, but had other priorities.

Just moved, and "found" a lot of my accumulated audio gear.  Just flipping through carts, this one sounded significantly better than the Denon 300 before or the Dynavector 10X4 I rolled in after.  

I had the tracking set at 2G, the cart sounded better on the 30 ohm vs 10 setting on the FRT-3 transformer I grabbed.  Have not experimented with any other settings or head amps.

I would pull it from the shell, but I don't remember any info on top.

Not sure how to insert a pic, so here is a link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1h6fem0rcs2lcy0/Unknown%20cart.jpg?dl=0

Would appreciate any insight,

Thanks,

Robert


rkb1958
roberjerman
4,319 posts
 
Can you post a better picture?
cramit31
2 posts
 
Best guess, Same as the name on the head shell -Supex, no idea of the model
rkb1958 OP
1 posts
 
If anyone is interested, I found the spec sheet that I did not know I had:

Cart is a Shinon Saphic MC, Tracking 2g +/- .2, impedance 4 ohms, compliance 7x10-6 @ 100hz, output .28mV. The spec sheet indicates a hollow sapphire tube cantilever with "line contact" nude diamond. VTA is spec’d to be 22 deg.

The stylus tip looks good to me at 200x, definitely not a simple shape. I think the cart sounds very nice at 2g running into a FR FRT-3 transformer at 30 ohms setting. It does some things better than the fresh Hana SL I have.

Thanks for the views and guesses.  
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