Woot! Decca cartridge bargain

What i know for sure is that Stereohedron is superb

Hear Hear! I have one (Stanton D881S). I came by it while helping a friend. He wanted me to service his Thorens 124, so I did. It had the Stanton. He said it was crap and throw it out; I’d never heard of it (this was many many years ago) but was curious: every unknown cartridge deserves a chance. The stylus was encrusted with black hard crud, I wasn’t even sure there was a stone under it. No solvent, no brush or machine made a dent in that crust. I had to use a scalpel blade — with extreme care — and finally carved it all away. The stone was there, bright and gleaming. Under a 60X scope, it looked good too: sharp tip, clean lines, like new (though I know more X is needed to really see wear). After all that work, I hoped it was at least decent, and with some trepidation I played a record...

IT

BLEW

MY

MIND

@bimasta haha, nice, you can't go wrong with Doug Sax's disc mastering monitoring cartridge. 

I sent it to John Wright in the UK for a check-up a few months ago. He said it was unused. So an almost NOS Garrott Export with a line contact stylus. Sweet.

The original Garrott rebuilds used a Weinz Parabolic styles profile, as opposed to the Paratrace. I still have mine stating this on the original paperwork from the long departed brothers. Here's a review from my old boss Ken Kessler - we worked together at Canterbury Hi-Fi in the UK before he went full time into journalism.

https://www.kenkessler.com/hi-fi/garrott-decca-cartridge/

@topoxforddoc To clarify. The Grey may have the WP stylus. JW just said it was a type of line contact.
The Paratrace is on my SG/Decapod.
I also picked up a JW refurbished Garrott Bros Gold Microscanner which is superb. Almost as good as the SG sound but with no vinyl noise and a slightly more nuetral flavor.