SHURE V15 Type V-MR Cartridge Body and New SHURE VN5MR Replacement Stylus

My personal cartridge, owned from new and in superb, boxed condition.  After about 50 hours of (blissful) use its stylus accidently got damaged (by a visitor!) and the cartridge was put into safe storage.  Some years later I purchased a new replacement SHURE VN5MR stylus, which was not installed/used, as at that point in time I held a variety of other cartridges mounted on various arm units of my Technics EPA-500 system tonearm.

It has remained safely stored (but certainly never forgotten) until now.

Considered one of the very finest cartridges ever made, with genuinely 'real sound' reproducing quality and amazing tracking ability.  On a technical level it incorporated a number of outstanding attributes and advantages:

• superior laminated pole pieces that provides smoother, extended high frequency response as well as realizing a highly efficient generating structure.
• totally encapsulated internal structure and generator coils that ensures and maintains superior sound quality together with much extended component life.
• Beryllium 'Microwall' stylus cantilever results in superior trackability for superior, more accurate reproduction
• Micro Ridge, 'Masar' polished profile nude diamond stylus increases frequency range, lowers distortion and reduces record wear to class leading levels
• high efficiency magnetic structure for utmost flat frequency response
• Dynamic Stabilizer/Destaticizer overcomes record warp, dust and surface static
• highest trackability at a tracking force which provides optimum sound quality and extended record life and stylus life
• set includes precision instrumentation for the critical alignment of the stylus to the record groove
• individually serialised and tested to precise Quality Standards, with each cartridge supplied with printout of actual, final performance parameters

Maker's description:

This exceptional cartridge represents a quantum leap forwards in phono cartridge performance.  It brings together a sophisticated array of important new construction features, performance capabilities and high technology installation instrumentation. The result is superb, refined sound reproduction designed to give unequalled listening pleasure.  The V15 Type V-MR not only creates the music, it brings back the emotion and life of the performance.

Specifications:

        Output voltage:   3.2 mV RMS @ 1kHz, 5 cm/sec peak velocity

        Frequency response:   10 Hz to 25 kHz

        Channel balance:   within 1.5 dB @ 2 k Hz across full frequency spectrum

        Channel separation:   1 kHz : 25 dB / 10 kHz : 18 dB, or greater

        Trackability @ 1 gram:   400 Hz, 30 cm/sec:  1 kHz, 46 cm/sec:  5 kHz, 80 cm/sec:  10 kHz, 60 cm/sec

        Tracking force:   1.0 - 1.25 grams ( 1.25 - 1.75 grams with Stabilizer employed)

        Stylus cantilever:   Microwall beryllium pipe, 18 mil dia, 0.5 mil wall thickness

        Stiffness to mass ratio:   6.25 (highest known)

        Diamond tip:   'Masar' polished, nude Micro-Ridge r3.8 x R75µ

           Recommended load:   47 k ohms in parallel with 250 pF     

           Coil resistance:   815 ohms dc

        Coil inductance:   330 mH @ 1 kHz

        Cartridge weight:   6.6 grams  

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