ATN160ml Beryllium MicroLine Stylus on AT150e body

I expected more comments, oh well,

I have listened more, now to more bass content, and other even more familiar full range and vocal content, and I am happy to say that I got lucky, I love everything I have used it for, and thrilled I am back to 1.25 g tracking.

I use my NOS AT440ml Microline on Aluminum up here in my office for 1.25 tracking. It was essentially unused because I preferred the Shure V15Vxmr beryllium I broke for two reasons: it’s beryllium cantilever and it’s 1.0g tracking, and the option to lower the damped brush for warped lps was more important with prior TT in prior location.

Next I will compare the beryllium to the saphire to the boron to the aluminum, but I’m gonna ask a friend to join me for that.

I’m gonna write the seller, ask for a partial refund, see what happens, it’s not important, but it also is not what was described.

Cost was $265. Sounds awesome, but not what seller or I thought, so I figured I’d ask for a 1/3 refund,

Seller gave me the $90. refund I asked for plus less tax.

sold as used_parts1, but ’unisound’ card was in the box, I see that for many listings from Japan.

this Luxman PD-444 is listed, with the identical photo by at least 7 different sellers, just search PD-444, and scroll down, easy to recognize the photo.

PD-444 Search on eBay

same Luxman Two Arm TT PD-444 listed by many sellers

I have strongly suspected that the 'From Japan' sellers on eBay are all the same single person with many accounts.

In this case, many different people are selling the same item, that is the opposite of what you are thinking.

I think Unisound is huge, they clean it up, take photos, and let others try and sell it on a commision basis.

@elliottbnewcombjr "would you return it, try to get one with a true AT160 Body?"

I have original AT160ML, AT150E/Ea/MLX, and new ATN replacement styluses.. It seems original AT160ML body is earlier development, which used thinner wire, thus resistance and inductance is a bit higher than all AT150E/Ea/MLX (same body). This is a GOOD thing, because lower coil resistance/inductance reduces sensitivity to phono cable (R/L/C, shielding and phono-pre input capacitance. AT150 bodies sound clearer in the 5..20kHz region than AT160ML, in my setup using Accuphase AD2820 phono pre stage. AT150MLX (discontinued) uses the same body as AT150E, but has boron cantilever, and these days considered top of MM carts’ in mid price range!