My Stanton 500E Phono Cartridge 

When I replaced my shure 75 with a stanton 600, I started to hear high freq. tones that I didn't know existed on my records.

Loved the video about audio! I always learn something and watch at least three times. Thanks Joe.

I've missed your audio and broadcasting videos! Nice to see these from time to time!

Gratz on your find! I was listening to the record and that reminds me that at one point media did the news to inform people, now they just want to be sensational by saying their own spin regardless of truth or lies. Thanks for sharing.

I so have a set of 520sk dj needles which I believe can use the same stylii as this cartridge. Their own stylii are dj needles so they track heavy. Another nice one I found as more of a budget cartridge is the red audio Technica at91r. Not the best but punches way above it's weight once broken in for 30ish hours. All carts sound better after broken in. I considered getting the lp gear HiFi upgrade for the 520sk but haven't decided yet.

I just received my Sony PS-LX2 turntable I bought from Goodwill. It came with a Stanton 500e Mk II. Very nice bonus.

Wow i set my old Gold 500 Mk1 up today, took about 45 minutes, i am still playing arond with the VTA and i can honetly say i am blown away . I ordered a 35 euro stylus which unfortunately is as you state ,,only tracks well above 3 grams but it will do for now. Vocals sound clearer, natural and airy the soundstage opened up , .instruments sound like instruments and not cardboard cutouts .Everything sounds more natural and to think i had this cart sitting in a drawer since 93 thinking it was junk, when it was just the plastic Hitachi TT that was junk. I now need to see if i can find a N.O.S stanton E stylus or something from Jico.

I tried an Ortofon 2M red, but I found it a bit shrill and fatiguing to listen to. Maybe it just wasn’t suited for my system. Very interesting record and insight into Staton carts. Been a long time since I have seen and heard a Pickering. I track my Nagaoka at 1.8 Grams. Anyway nice video.

They are old school now, but I still have a pair of Technics SL1200MK5s from when I was a bedroom DJ waaaaay back in the day. They used to have Stanton 500s stylus, which are awesome sounding. Used them right from the start, even with the cheaper decks that I started with. I still have a set that I use from time to time, but I like to use Ortofon Concords now.

i just upraded from the at xp3 to a stanton 500. the improvement in sound was astounding. much more punchy and bassy, and much better treble response.

Ole KXO? Bob had good taste in cartridges. Great vid.

Hi Joe great vid man I have I got one for you I love vintage stereo gear from TT's to Reel to Reels. I was passing buy a yard sale about a month ago and something, In my head told me to turn back and just take a look. I walked around then something caught my eye laying on the floor of this woman's garage. There sat Pioneer box yellowed from age and it had printed on it Pioneer PL-10 turntable on it. I garbed it and walked to the woman that was having the yard sale and asked her about the TT, She said that it belonged to her father and that she never used it and has no need for it. I asked her how much she said 10 dollars I could not get the money out any faster before she would change her mind.. Ok here comes the great part I got home with it and put it on my work bench and opened the box thinking that it was not all there or it was going to be in really bad condition, I was picking myself off the floor to find a mint Pioneer PL-10 still wrapped in the factory packaging with a Stanton 500 cartridge that has never been played. The rubber feet was all dried and cracked and of course the drive belt was all goo. Took it all apart cleaned and lubed and installed a new belt what a time capsule not a scratch or a mark on it and it plays and sounds so awesome.

UPDATE: I FOUND my Stanton 500e MKII cartridge, reinstalled it on a headshell, plugged it into my 1976 Sansui turntable - and IT STILL SOUNDS AMAZING! Man I don't know why I took this off years ago. And then I thought it was GONE as I couldn't find it. I found it inside of a GRADO cartridge box of all places. Anyhow, now I'm looking for a NEW OLD STOCK Stylus replacement - the exact blue one that you show in your video. At some point this stylus is going to need to be replaced, and I don't know if I should trust the JICO or others to hold up to this kind of quality. Any lead on a NOS Stanton stylus is GREATLY appreciated. I check the eBay daily...

Great video! I almost accidentally came into possession of a 500 and an L720EE. The 500 had a decent replacement conical stylus and sounds very good. The 720 was missing a stylus, so I bought a Pfanstiehl 4820-DE (D5100E type) 0.3 x 0.7 from Amazon. The recommended tracking force for that cartridge tops out at 1.5, but even tracking it at 2+ it’s very sibilant. Have you had any good luck with replacement styli since you made the video, or experimenting with tracking force?

so when this stylus runs out, what are you going to get? I have the same combo haha wonddering what to replace the stylus with

Jico probably makes a decent replacement stylus for the Stanton.

This was my first cartridge. Sadly long gone, but looking for another one. Used ones pop up on eBay but usually read "needs stylus"... if anyone has a lead on a new-old-stock (or like new) version, i'm all ears! Great cartridge.

tell me what you think about the Linn K9 cartridge & the AT-vmn95en.. i feel that it is very good .. when i see the right price for another Linn K9 i will buy it.. old model but never out of date sound wise..

maybe there is some tricks to had on phono pré-amps like a selection of filters to match the EQ band of the stylus....Mh I gonna look fore that and build a prototype(it is as hard to write a script)

I found the Naggy MP110 a bit veiled on treble with Polk T15 speakers

Hi JC do you still have the AT120 ?,I still have it , I bought it over 10 years ago basing my purchase from your review of that cartridge back in the day

That's also a DJ cartridge for scratch DJ work for the Technics SL-1200 - 1210 All the MK models.

Vm95e elliptical version of your blue vm95 I like alot

What do they sell for. You should check out the Benz micro silver 2mV about $250 or so, a excellent for the price

It's a damn shame that Stanton and Shure stopped making cartridges. Aren't the later iterations of the 681 better than the 500?

A guy in my area says he has 5 new old stock Stanton D5071a stylus. Do you know if said stylus is marked to confirm it is in fact an original and not a knock off. Thanks!

I was on vacation in that area in 1988. Were you on the air in Berea?

Why don't people who want the best turntables try and get new old stock REVOX B790/B795 both play records the way the master was cut on a record cutting lathe, both will need recapping as well as the drive belts that drive the tonearm along the record as some drive belts turn into black goo or you could go for the MARANTZ 143 Midi System also has a Linear Tracking Turntable where the tonearm is in the lid.