Mystery cartridge … m97xe?

Moonwatcher

Moonwatcher

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Hello, I was scraping around the bottom of my discarded cartridge box and found an unmarked body that looks suspiciously like a Shure m97xe with that Amityville Horror, barnlike outline. Anyone want to weigh in on what it might be … ?image.jpg image.jpg
 
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It is definitely a Shure, without the body. I am trying to remember which ones had the colour coordination on the back. Probably a M97
 
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mythless said:
It is definitely a Shure, without the body. I am trying to remember which ones had the colour coordination on the back. Probably a M97
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I have an M 97X that is a bit worse for the wear and missing ground pin. Except for the printing, they look identical. See below:
 
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Plenty of Shure cartridges used the black colored boat bottom body shape but with a wide variety of mounts and body cladding added. The little rubber-ish colored nubs on the clip bases remind me of the m97xe certainly but there were likely others with them too.
 
If that remaining red nub on the 97x is still in its original place (pin), then the cart on the left is not a 97x.
 
The Shure models that match your pictures (body style, no identifying markings, terminal pin sequence) are:
M95 (coils = 650 mH/1550 ohms)
V15IV (coils = 500 mH/1380 ohms)
SPS series 5 (coils = 650 mH/1550 ohms)
SPS series 6 (coils = 700 mH/1550 ohms)
There's also a Radio Shack (V15-RS) coils = 300 mH/975 ohms) (this model may have the "V15-RS" printed on the body.

It would help if you could get the coil measurements.
 
image.jpg Thank you so much for that information. I don’t think I have ever had any of those cartridges unless they were on an old turntable I rescued. But I do have an empty SC35C cartridge shell that this body seems to fit. I also have a stylus for that, so I’m hoping it all works together. Thanks!
 
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