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 Vetterone, Many thanks for your very informative review of those vintage GLANZ flagships. Maybe the MFG-XXXLX series were imported exclusively to this North European Frontier, kinda opposite to the Japanese market (grin). I should have had bought it when it was available for a very short time, young and foolish was I !

The MFG-61 with its special tiny stylus tip and boron cantilever may very well be the finest of the GLANZ MF carts.

Merci
Dear Vetterone, How can I forget you while continually
dreaming about your plinth for my SP-10?
BTW refering to whatever user manual is not much of a
proof for anything. My own, included by my 31L seems to
be the most recent. (In)there as the top line are mentioned
71,51 and 31 while no sign of this misterious 61 can be
found. If Dover has not informed me to have 'got' one I would
still think that this 61 is a product of your rich
imagination. But now that must believe that this 61 exist
I decided to sell my Glanz collection. Out of frustration
of course.
Fascinating is the search for the mysterious MF...and MM/MI cart(s). This may very well be a neverending story/thread, after all...
Still, logically the highest digit confirms the finest, so the 71 must be that ?
Dear Harold, There is this old Aristotelian 'methodology'
about the 'essence of things'. Well your 'neverending story'
seems to be the 'essence' of our hobby. Your 'digit'
assumption however is ,alas, false. This 'lesser' number 61
seems to be better than my own higher number 71.