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This is my second SAS Stylus 1 for my 35+ year old Garrott P77. The SAS brings considerable improvements over the original stylus, bringing the P77/SAS into the top echelon of cartridges. Excellent tracking, sweet extended highs, deep bass, excellent sound staging. It gives up little, if any, to my Koetsu Rosewood Signature and Ortofon MC A95 in my setup.
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Excellent stylus replacement for Garrott P77 or similar. Solid bass, clean mids and shimmering highs. Tracks +16dB bass drum at 1.2g in Grace G-707 with no audible mistracking.
Two provisos however when used with the P77 generator:
1. the cantilever is shorter and recessed further back than that on the P77. The shorter boron cantilever is in itself a good thing - however it was not possible to achieve the 15mm overhang necessary for correct alignment in the G-707. This was corrected by modifying the cartridge mount and all is now good.
2. the fit of the stylus assembly into the generator is a little "sloppy". However a small blob of magic Garrott Bros red plasticene between the cartridge and the stylus assembly resolved this.
All in all - a superb sounding and tracking substitute for the original Garrott P77 stylus. Highly recommended!
Read somewhere online that this stylus would fit my Garrott P77,which has been waiting for a new stylus for years now.. Decided to take a chance, and ordered one.
I'm very delighted to say it does fit and it sounds marvellous.A lot better tracking,more detail and a sweet top end like the original stylus.
Even better than the ones I got for my Shure V15/3 and Stanton 881s.But that's the cartridge helping there,of course.
I will be getting another as a spare!
The genuine stylus from Australia is A$455.00,and this one cost me NZ$155.00.Very happy with it.
Great Needle.
I am using it in a Shelter 201.
I am waiting the produce of the MM1.
When you produce again this cartridge?