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ATN95E Shibata Stylus for Cartidge ( AT95E )

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ATN95E Shibata Stylus for Cartidge ( AT95E )

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ATN95E Shibata Stylus for Cartidge ( AT95E )

ATN-95SA Shibata Replacement Stylus for Cartidge ( AT-95 )

"The AT95SA is among the "best buys" in reasonably priced MM cartridges, if not the best buy..."If you want to transform your AT95E from wonderful to extraordinary, then try the ATN-95SA stylus. Your jaw should drop, as did mine LP Review

Shibata Nude Diamond Stylus

Aftermarket High Quality Replacement Stylus (Copy / Pattern / Replica Non AT )

I thought the 95SA was strikingly superior sounding to the 95E.The sonic differences between the AT95E and SA are nothing short of enormous. The SA’s high frequency performance is vastly improved, with silky, smooth transients, better extension (unless you confuse “crunch” with genuine extension) and “gobs” more resolution.The improvements don’t stop there: the midrange is far more supple as is the upper bass. This results in far superior bass: no more cardboardy string plucks. Voices take on greater weight and warmth and instrumental timbres are remarkably improved. Ms. Taylor’s voice now sounds rich, warm and three-dimensional. The saxophone now has a “reedy” quality missing from the AT95E rendering. A major transformation for the better. Though it costs 3X as much as the AT95E, the AT95SA is probably 10X better. It’s difficult to quantify that way but I’m doing it anyway. Listening to this track had I not known what I was listening to I’d have a difficult time believing it was recorded using a $179 cartridge, an under $1000 phono preamp and a $1500 turntable. It sounds that well-resolved, rhythmically superb, tonally sophisticated and just plain right! The AT AT95SA is among the “best buys” in reasonably priced MM cartridges, if not the best buy, but only if you carefully set SRA. Michael Fremer Analogue Planet

I've been running a ATN95SA shibata-tip stylus on my AT95 cartridge body for about a month now & simply cannot believe how fantastic this thing sounds. Clear, airy, top-end? Yup. Sibilance? Nope. Deep, groovy, note-for-note thundering bass? Yup. Inner-groove distortion? Nope. Vocals rendered realistically? Yup. Strident, screechy midrange? Nope. Balls-out for rock'n'roll? Yup. Too rockin' for Classical or Jazz? Nope. Holographic, wide, deep & tall soundstage? Yup. Expensive? Nope. I'm not kidding, this thing does everything so well it's frightening. And all for $170. Now that is some sweet, sweet candy..

After Market Stylus for AT AT95S Shibata Replacement Stylus (AT-95 )

This shibata tipped needle will transform any compatible cartridge with a lesser-equipped stylus into a high end playback solution capable of exceptionally faithful, clear and true sound reproduction

Audiophile Phonograph replacement stylus Replacement stylus For AT95

Shibata styli take the elliptical design further for greater contact with the record. When properly aligned, offer fantastic high-frequency performance, longer tip life, improved tracking, and low record wear. They are, however, harder to manufacture than elliptical styli, and therefore expensive.S hibata diamond stylus are the same diamond as used on Epensive MM/MC Cartridges. Its slim, highly polished profile allows an exceedingly wide contact area to the groove walls and ensures notably detailed reproduction throughout the spectrum, including even the most high frequency groove information.

This stylus is designed to be used to replace your old, worn stylus, prolonging the life of your records and providing you with better sound quality over that from a worn stylus.

A worn stylus can cause serious (irreversible) damage to your records, and provide poor sound quality

Replacement Stylus ONLY - Cartridge Shown NOT Supplied

A Worn stylus can cause Serious ( Irreversible Damage ) to your records, and provide poor sound quality

Replacement Stylus ONLY - Cartridge Shown NOT Supplied

We recommend that you purchase at least two replacement styli ( Spare ) especially if you are buying for an older cartridge. Manufacturers have been phasing out many replacement styli for decades & so the next time you need one a spare for your older cartridge you may not be able to find it. & many 100s of suppliers of Cartridges & Turntables have ceased production or went out business .

Genuine Stylus - Original as fitted by Cartridge OEM ( Original Equipment Maunfacturer )

Copy/Pattern/Replica - If no longer in production Aftermarket Replacement

a. NUDE Diamond.- Best & Most Expensive Option

The stylus is a whole diamond, specially shaped and glued or fastened to the cantilever.
b. BONDED / Tipped diamond - Least Expensive option

. Here, a stylus tip of diamond is mounted on a metal shank.It is usually made of diamond the hardest material known - to give it maximum durability. However, the fact that it is of diamond is not sufficient in itself, for its construction and shape are also crucial factors in sound quality. Many less inexpensive Hi-Fi cartridges use a so-called “tipped” diamond, where the diamond tip is mounted on a metal shank. However, such a shank may increase the stylus tip mass and thus impair the cartridge’s transient reproduction, in comparison with a cartridge that uses a nude untipped diamond.

Stylus Profile

The SPHERICAL ( Conical ) Stylus
The spherical shaped stylus is the simplest and cheapest to produce and it is, therefore, the most common. Spherical styli can be recommended in all cases where robustness and economy are taken into consideration in the purchase of a cartridge.

The ELLPITICAL stylus
The elliptical shaped stylus bears greater resemblance to the triangular shaped cutting stylus that is used when cutting master records.The elliptical stylus is able to follow the groove oscillations more accurately than the spherical type, and its distortion and phase error will,therefore, be less.& stylus life will be extended compared to a Spherical Stylus

Advanced Stylus Profiles

The HYPER ELLPITICAL stylus

Hyper-Elliptical is an extreme elliptical tip.which are precision ground and are actually often closer to Contact Line than most ellipticals. Stylus life will be extended compared to a Elliptical Stylus

The SHIBATA stylus

Various cartridge manufacturers have been inspired by the Shibata shape and now produce cartridges with stylus shapes that give the same advantages as the Shibata. quadraphonic systems never really caught on with consumers, but they have helped to speed up the development of stylus types that improve playback of stereo records in the form of a more precise treble reproduction, lower distortion, and less record wear. Stylus life will be extended compared to a Elliptical/HE Stylus

The SAS ( Super Analogue Stylus )

Designed to mimic as close as possible a record cutting head/cutting lathe for highest fidelity & lifespan usually fitted to a precision boron , sapphire , ruby or zirconium ultra light & rigid cantilever

SAS -Natural single-crystal, nude-mounted octahedral diamond stylus tip , The stylus tip is of optimum height and a uniformly ultra-precision finish. The Super Analogue Stylus has a curvature with a smaller radius that was impossible with the Micro Ridge Stylus. As thin as a razor blade and machined with ultra precision, the stylus tip ensures unsurpassed fidelity. Polished finish that virtually preserves your record's grooves.World-class polishing technique is used on each stylus. This is designed to preserve the details of the record groove structure for a very long time — virtually for the life of the vinyl.

Other Advanced Profiles & Trademarks include

BI-ELLIPTICAL , PRAMANIC , QUADRAHEDRAL , HYPERBOLIC , PATHEMAX , FINE LINE , LINE CONTACT , MICRORIDGE MICROLINE PARATRACE , REPLICANT , FG , VDH , SUPER FINE LINE

Advanced Stylus Profiles as used on Hiend Cartridges offer much improved Sound Quality , Extended Stylus Life , Extended HF Response & Tracking almost exactly duplicates the shape of the cutting stylus used to produce the original master disc from which records are made. This enables it to track portions of the groove other styli simply cannot reach. The result is extremely accurate tracking of high-frequency passages and ruler-flat frequency response within the audible range

Due to Stylus Shape & Profile advanced stylus make greater contact with the record groove wall for better sound quality

CANTILEVER

The cantilever of a Phono cartridge, like the stylus itself, is an important part of the vibration system and is necessary in order to faithfully transmit the vibrations from the record to the Stylus.

A variety of materials such as Aluminum,& Expensive cartridges use Sapphire, Beryllium and Boron are used to make cantilevers of different shapes and dimensions. The lighter and stiffer the material, the better and more accurately the cantilever can transmit vibration.

In today’s high-end cartridges, precision is also required for the materials, processing, and assembly of magnetic circuit parts as well as the suspension mechanism connected to the cantilever.

Notes on Mono Records & Cartridges Styli

Modern Microgroove Records have a V profile Groove & Modern Mono Microgroove Re-issues

0.7mil is Suitable for Reissue Monaural LP and a Mono LP of after 1960.
1.0mil is Suitable for the Monaural LP of a deep groove of the first press of the 1950s.
However, both styli can trace the monaural LP of all generations without a problem.
When you listen to the monaural LP of all generations, we recommend 0.7mil.
When you listen to a monaural LP of the first press of the 1950s mainly, we recommend 1.0mil.

3.0mil usually ideal for 78rpm mono records

Why Mono ?
A mono cartridge is mechanically different from a stereo cartridge. Simply switching a stereo cartridge to mono does not work perfectly. Despite what manufactures claim mono switches invariably add the two channels by simply shorting the two channels together, even very" expensive units do this. Hiend units can sum the two channels with extra electronics to eliminates the vertical response and improve the signal to noise by 3dB. However even summing does not provide the ultimate, a cartridge designed for mono, with a single coil and no vertical movement reduces surface noise, vertical noise and fits the groove properly.

Older Mono records have a U type Groove Mono/78RPM 3.0mil is the accepted norm & Steel Needles for gramophone records

other types used by collectors are 2.0/2.5/3.0/3.5/4.0/8.0 ( MIL = 1/1000th of a inch )

2.0MIL - 2.0 X 0.4 mil Elliptical diamond - worn LPs, some transcriptions.
2.5MIL - 2.5 X 0.5 mil elliptical diamond - late unworn 78s
3.0MIL - 3.0 X 0.5 mil elliptical diamond - most 1905 to 1940's, slightly worn 78s & transcriptions, & some Edison discs.
3.5MIL 3.5 X 0.8 mil elliptical diamond - old or worn 78s, transcriptions.
4.0MIL 4.0 X 1.0 mil elliptical diamond - Edison Diamond & very old/worn discs, raw aluminium, RCA home recordings., also Pathé vertical discs
8.0MIL 8.0 mil conical sapphire - RCA home recordings, and worn Pathé vertical discs.