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From: dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne Perry)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: My damn (new) cartridge don`t work! (Grado carts)
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 11:00:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 11:00:07 1985
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About the Grado cartridge - not the cheap one.  First, there are Grado
cartridges listed over $200.  I got the one listed for $200 for about
$180.  It is only very slightly used should anyone wish to make me an offer.

1.  It is poorly shielded:  I had a hum that went away when I moved the 
    moved the turn table a further foot away from one of my mono amps
    (it was already 2.5 feet from the amp)

2.  It did not track worth beans on a Janet Baker recording of Mendelsson
    songs.  Now granted, it may well have been the fault of the tone arm
    as well (a Grace 707 - a mismatch for the cartridge, but the three
    dealers that were willing to sell the Grado as the latest-greatest
    did not mention anything about a mismatch with my tonearm).

Any buyers?  Dewayne