CD-4 Cartridge Evaluation (B&O)

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https://worldradiohistory.com/Archi...idelity/70s/High-Fidelity-1974-06.pdf#page=23^^^
"RCA/ JVC engineers established criteria by which the performance and 4-channel capabilities of cartridges could be evaluated"


I was looking for some other Quad related info in High Fidelity mag and found this.


Kirk Bayne

 

[Doug G.]

It seems I remember reading, in some reviews of CD-4 cartridges, that the B&O MMC 6000, in spite of not necessarily having the best measured specs, performed very satisfactorily.

I'll have to see if I can find one of those reviews.I think I have one saved.

The thing people balked at was the non-replaceable stylus.

Doug

 

[quadjoe]

It seems I remember reading, in some reviews of CD-4 cartridges, that the B&O MMC 6000, in spite of not necessarily having the best measured specs, performed very satisfactorily.

I'll have to see if I can find one of those reviews.I think I have one saved.

The thing people balked at was the non-replaceable stylus.

Doug

It was not user replaceable. You could send it off to B&O to have it re-tipped, which cost less than another cartridge, but was still not cheap. If you wanted to keep listening to records while your cartridge was being re-tipped, you had to have two of them. That fact always kept me from buying a B&O turntable in spite of the extreme cool factor..