[Vintage-Audio] M3D

[Robert Nickels]

Partially answering my own question - a look with the jewelers loupe 
made it clear why I heard distortion on the Shure M3D cartridge. Most of 
the stylus was missing!  Since these seem to be held in some esteem 
amongst audio types I ordered a replacement stylus and am anxious to 
hear how it sounds.  Meanwhile I swapped the shell from my other Garrard 
"A" and am enjoying the curbside-reclaimed turntable.

A question - is anyone using the old Rek-O-Kut turntables and tonearms 
like the viscous damped Gray models?  I had one of these as a kid and 
since it was single play and nowhere near as cool as the Voice of Music 
or whatever cheap-o models my friends had it went away long ago.  Even 
though the ones like I had are rim drive, they seem to be well 
thought-of.   As I recall the motor was probably big enough to run a 
decent-sized home appliance.

73, Bob W9RAN