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
I forgot, Vetterone: """ +++ Do the bodies look like the Astatic MF series? " ++++

the Astatic are stand alone ( 1/2" ) mounting cartridges where the ones you named ( the ones that Dgob owns. ) are headshell integrated designs: way different.

R.
Dear Raul, There are also 'stand alone' Glanz carts so you
should not give up. But if both , the G5 and G 7 are 'integrated' I need to concentrate only on the 31 E or L?
BTW Vetterone asked Dgob about the styli as well about the
kind (mms or mf's) of his G5 /G 7 which imply that he is not familiar with those.Besides to be able to 'integrate' whatever cart in whatever headshell both are (pre)assumed to be 'stand alone' before the (re)union. Ie. it may be the case that the carts 'in' G5/G7 exsist as separate or 'stand alone' entity.

Dear Dgob, I hope you can answer all those questions. Considering the time that you spend on the 'subject' I am very optimistic. It is , I would think, much easier 'stuff' than Kant's Critic of the pure reason.

Regards,
Dear nandric: My MF-300 is still " on the road " along several cartridges and right now I can't say the up date price because I don't decide yet if I go for the very top Axel up date ( expensive. ) or something " different ".

Of course that like any other cartridge if cantilever/stylus are different on two similar cartridge motors the performance is a little different on both cartridges. I have a second sample that permit me to experiment about and of course I can make the up date to my MF-200 too but I need this one in stock fashion as a reference so maybe latter after comparisons that I will report on the MM/MI thread.

Btw, as with other cartridge manufacturer/models where exist an integrated headshell cartridge design always exist its stand alone counterpart, you can see that on the Technics P100CMK4 or with Yamaha and many more and Glanz is no exeption. The one that own my brother is the top of the line stand alone one.

I decided to go with the Astatic ones through its up dates: we will see.

regards and enjoy the music,
R.
Hi Nandric,

"Well this thread become 'something totaly different':
it is now about who knows better. Nobody invited Vetterone to demonstrate his knowledge so he obviuously invited him self."

I think (from my perspective) I have invited Vetterone to contribute. Indeed, that has been an underlying purpose of this thread and I only hope some more people with actual experience of the Glanz [particularly of the relevant and superior G series] will be encouraged to break cover and come forward. I continue to learn about these gems and benifit from that knowledge.

As always...