MONO Cartridge Stylus Shape: WHAT? WHEN?

Some want 'best'.

My approach is not 'best' but to get the true advantages of playing Mono LP's with a Mono Cartridge. So far it's going well

I started with a Grado MI Elliptical Mono, currently using for Mono Jazz, early and late 50's., some earlier 40's.

Then, why not: I had VAS put boron/advanced stylus shape on an AT-33 MC Mono Body for alternate 'advanced stylus' mono. Haven't used it yet.

I see some Spherical Mono Cartridges for sale, including some for a lot of $.

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How do we know which era of Mono LP's grooves and which Stylus Shape is 'best' for them?????

IOW, an advanced stylus shape is just 'wrong' for this era of mono groove shape?

Is elliptical ok (just not best) for LP's where Spherical is 'proper'?

How much of a compromise is using Elliptical for all Mono LP's for instance?

thanks in advance as always for your contributions, Elliott

hdm Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,055 posts 08-20-2023 at 05:25pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Put your modified AT on. I am confident that you'll be very pleased and its performance will be exemplary on almost all your mono records. I had Steve put a Namiki boron cantilever with MR stylus on an AT 33 Mono a few years ago-it is a fabulous cartridge and a serious improvement on the stock item. Might even give a few of those $2k mono cartridges a run for their money.