Cartridge for an old GRACE 707?

One of the reasons that the Grace 707 and the F9 series worked so well together is that the cartridge/stylus was high compliance. The Grace is a low mass arm and should not be used with low compliance carts. Look for a figure greater than 12X 10-to-the-minus6 cm/dyne (15 is better) So generally avoid Grado, Denon,Monster, most Supex, Dynavector. Go for Shure, Sumiko Blue Point, AudioTechnica,Ortofon, some Signet models. If in doubt, check with Sumiko in Berkeley,CA.
Best of luck,
Joe

Thanks for input folks, especially Joeabrams. I've been in contact with the good folks in Bezerkeley.

Good listening!
Bart

if i'm not mistaken, my grace 727, which came on my used oracle also, is wery similar to the 707. joe is rite - heavy cartridges don't mate too well w/these arms. my ~11-gram ortofon had me adjusting the counterweight past its end-stop to get it to track properly. while a good arm for lite caretridges, i ended up replacing mine w/an origin-live moddded rega rb250.

doug s.

Grace, Model 707 was very good sound in its day. ($149.00). It worked well with the Fidelity Research FR-1MkIII MC cart when I had it. Joe is correct about only higher compliance though(no Koetsu on this arm!!). Like Doug, I owned Oracle for many years (Mk-1,2,3,4, and Premier MK II) I found the Linn Ittok, Signet SK-50,Triplaner,Well tempered and Zeta to sound much better. It was fundamentally very good, but the Oracle table was better than it was. By the way, the 5 pin armcable that came with the Grace is a real loser. It could be that I never really heard the arm! That is the major caveat with these older arms. Arms like the Well Tempered allow one to use their own IC, a real plus.(I liked the Well Tempered best of all)
Grace 704 and 714 were unipivot designs (704 was a real looker)

Well you could go looking for a Grace f9e for the arm. They do crop up ocassionally.