Not the most costly, but one I am still peeved about.
Had my Thorens TD124 on a high shelf, SME tonearm eye level, see that needle drop.
Oh did it drop. Shure V15VxMR, removable stylus with brush, microline on BERYLLIUM.
I dropped that stylus, it landed on my shirt, saved by the beer belly, didn't hit anything hard. Whew!!!
Damn if the beryllium shaft wasn't shattered, I'm still mad, I won't buy anything more brittle than Boron, and I worry about that. I kept the body but didn't use it for years, found out about Jico here, bought their stylus for it, SAS on boron.
It's wonderful, I was truly enjoying it, but my first MC AT33PTG/II beats it, I just put them thru another race for several hours today. The tighter channel balance produces an amazingly tight rock steady center, and the greater separation plays off that. I actually had to toe my speakers in more for something that was un-naturally wide (easy for me, heavy monsters on 3 wheels on wood grid floor, like graph paper).
Had my Thorens TD124 on a high shelf, SME tonearm eye level, see that needle drop.
Oh did it drop. Shure V15VxMR, removable stylus with brush, microline on BERYLLIUM.
I dropped that stylus, it landed on my shirt, saved by the beer belly, didn't hit anything hard. Whew!!!
Damn if the beryllium shaft wasn't shattered, I'm still mad, I won't buy anything more brittle than Boron, and I worry about that. I kept the body but didn't use it for years, found out about Jico here, bought their stylus for it, SAS on boron.
It's wonderful, I was truly enjoying it, but my first MC AT33PTG/II beats it, I just put them thru another race for several hours today. The tighter channel balance produces an amazingly tight rock steady center, and the greater separation plays off that. I actually had to toe my speakers in more for something that was un-naturally wide (easy for me, heavy monsters on 3 wheels on wood grid floor, like graph paper).