Glanz moving magnet cartridges


Hi,

I have just acquired an old Glanz G5 moving magnet cartridge. However, I cannot find out any details about this or the Glanz range or, even the company and its history.

Can anyone out there assist me in starting to piece together a full picture?

Any experiences with this or other Glanz's; web links; set up information etc would be warmly received. Surely someone knows something!

Thanks in hope
dgob
Dear chakster,
''Glanz MFG -71 l (has) much bigger tapered Aluminum alloy 
cantilever ...found in cheaper and fairly high quality cartridges''.
Curious statement but I don't believe that Mitachi would make
such effort for the construction of 71 stilus (in comparison to
31 L) if there was no improvement  in comparison to 31 L which
is much more simple qua construction. I assume that Dgob's G-5
has the same stylus (construction) as 71 l. I never inspected the
G-5 stylus so I have no idea how it looks. My hope was that Dgob
would react to my (and Lew's) request and explain to us why he
''swears'' by those G-5, G-7 kinds? He has the most experience 
with the G-5 and , I assume, prefer this model above all else. 
Alas he seems not to be as ''nice '' as I assumed. Anyway no
reaction at all. 
Now about this ''tension wire''. At the end of the ''stylus tube''
there is an adjustment screw with which the pressure on the
rubber damping can be increased or decreased ''tuning'' this
way the compliance of the cart. I think that Axel used this screw
to fix your ''low rider'' sample. For 60 euro not much work (grin).
If you look better at your User manual you will see this screw
as well damping rubber behind the cantilever. 
By MC kinds the ''rubber ring'' is fastened behind the coils on
the generator. The pressure on this rubber ring can be adjusted
by the tension wire in reverse. When the tension wire need to
be installed back and ''tensioned'' against the rubber ring. 
One can see different screws on the MC generators one of
which need to fasten tension wire at the end of the generator. 
This tension wire divide the moving part(s); stylus , cantilever and coils fastened on the (aluminum) joint pipe and damping which
is fastened behind the coils on the generator. Without tension
wire the front or the moving parts would drop  off. 





@nandric 

Glanz MFG -71 l (has) much bigger tapered Aluminum alloy
cantilever ...found in cheaper and fairly high quality cartridges''.
Curious statement but I don't believe that Mitachi would make
such effort for the construction of 71 stylus (in comparison to
31 L) if there was no improvement in comparison to 31 L which
is much more simple qua construction.

I don't think the numbers is the reference to quality, if this logic could be true a 71 must be better than 61, but it's not. There is a 610LX too. 

Same logic can be applied to Astatic MF100 versus Astatic MF200, someone prefer MF100 over MF200, but 100 is a lower number. There was the MF2500 which is a higher number. 


I assume that Dgob's G-5
has the same stylus (construction) as 71 l. I never inspected the
G-5 stylus so I have no idea how it looks. My hope was that Dgob
would react to my (and Lew's) request and explain to us why he
''swears'' by those G-5, G-7 kinds?

I lost my interess to Glanz or Astatic cartridges since my farovite has been discovered. Maybe Dgob discovered much better cartridges too and lost his interess.

Sometimes the process is more interesting than result.

I've noticed that over the years i can only discover better cartridges :) 

One more shot on my macro lens with Glanz 31L cantilever/stylus under the sun in the winter. 

Dear chakster, Logic is connected with mathematics ( aka the
number theory) in the West but not necessary in the East.
Chinese and Japanese distinguish  between ''bad'' and ''good
numbers''. So searching for logical explanation for Glanz numbers
is hopeless undertaking. Even worst is the AT nomenclature.
I own AT's  in the cloths of Signet kinds numbered from 10 ,etc.
but without nr. 8. I own all of them till TK 5 but despite logic there
is no nr.8. So I assume that they (the Japanese) assume that
this number brings misfortune. But then there is some logic in
avoiding this number because everybody wants to avoid misfortune.
So it may be the case that they preferred nr. 61 above 71. Also
because the 61 is produced later they needed to put this nr.
somewhere so they put it between 71 and 51.  There is ,alas,
no reason for us in the West to feel superior because we also
have some strange numbers: negative , irrational and even infinite
numbers.


Post removed 
This English gentleman forget the ''function of time''. Or rather
he wants to reverse  its direction. When Raul started this
thread one could ask more money for each cart of the month
than he paid for. This ''one'' was member of this forum and had
as such ''inside information''. To put this otherwise we were able
to experiment for free. Alas this is not anymore the case. However
our English gentleman still thinks that those ''good old times''
are still present.