JVC MC1 Moving Coil Cartridge - Heritage?

The higherst possible postage price to Russia even for 1 single record is from Norway for some reason.

It is true that i like original boxes and everything in vintage Hi-Fi i’m trying to buy in original box for collection like this Victor UA-7045 tonearm in the box (NOS). Your box for MC-1 was a donor for another MC-1 i found later without box. 

And later i found next model in this series (MC-L10), also in original box (NOS) and to my surprise it was a stunning performer. Now a complete Victor system is here in NOS condition with MC-L10

I ended up with 3 different MC-1 including your donor.

Only one MC-1 is working, another one have a problem with one channel and the last one is completely dead (for parts or as a visual model only). However, i asked Peter at SoundSmith regarding those two samples, he said he could work on it. Maybe his tech skills is higher than Axel’s? But you know i don’t like refurbished cartridges when i have working original, so i never shipped anything to him.

My latest MC-L10 is an inprovement over my working MC-1 which is also good.

Dear chakster, I made an big mistake by description of the ''direct
drive'' technology.  The coil circuit is glued behind the stylus 
while the signal wire from the coils are glued on the cantilever in
the opposite direction. This way two objectives are reached:
reduction of the moving (parts) mass and avoidance of the cantilever
influence. This is actually ''micro technology''. To get access to
the coil (wire) in order to (re) solder the wire ''soldering point'' 
the whole cantilever/coil construction must be removed. In my
opinion impossible task. 
BTW Yamaha also used ''printed circuit'' coils for their MC-1 S 
model. They claimed the lowest (moving) mass for this cart
in conjunction with the ''fastest reaction'' to the record signal.
But I can't remember that anybody in our forum even mentioned
this cart. So those who think that there ''must be one single cause''
which explains the ''quality'' of an cart and refer either to the
''motor'' or the cantilever material or the stylus shape are  starting
with the wrong proposition or premise. If the premise is not true
than deduced statements from the premise must also be not
true.

For anyone who is curious about "Direct Couple" design by Victor Laboratory READ THIS blog written by Japanese enthusiast. This dude comparing popular vintage cartridges (MC and MM), an interesting read (imo). 

Thanks, Chakster. The author of that piece is a wise man, even when his English is translated from Japanese. His experiences as a general rule parallel my own. Which is why I am loathe to make definitive statements about anything. Related to Audio, that is.

 I also agree with Nandric, and I have written this many times before. It seems to me you cannot dissect a phono cartridge  and declare what parts or structural elements make it exceptionally good or bad. You have to take the whole thing as it is. 

Dear Lew, Part of this problem is (simple) grammar with ''subject
connective and predicate'' which is focused on description of
objects. This kind of sentences is not suitable for description of
relations. Say, ''brother'' whom I address regular in this forum
is not about some properties but a marking of an family relation
''place''. We all have assertions about what a ''good brother''
means but differente cultures may have different ''places'' in
the family row or order for brother. One of my Dutch friends
visited my beloved Serbia and say to me: ''you have greetings
from your brother in Serbia''. He was very confused when I said
to him: ''I have no brother''. But then I realized that brother in
Holland does not mean the same as in Serbia. In Holland there
is ''mom ,dad and kids'' so those kids are brothers and sisters.
In Serbia the family relations are much brother because ''family''
includes much more people . So we lack the expression ''cousin''
or ''nephew'' but use ''brother from uncle or aunt side'' instead.
This btw was the reason for Frege to construct ''scientific language''
because ordinary language was not sufficient precise.