which cartridge is this please?

[admin_exported]

I've never seen one of these brushes before

 

[audioaffair]

Hard to tell the front looks almost like an Audio Technica but then without the red square on the angled front/top it looks almost like a Goldring Elektra with something stuck on it. What are the characters on the side?

 

[Anonymous]

It looks like a Linn K18, which I think was made by Audio Technica.

 

[fatboyslimfast]

Yup, K18. The stylus is held into the main part of the cartridge with a small allen bolt for additional rigidity. From memory it was about £120 when it was new, which would have been around 1990-4ish.

TBH, the stylus assembly is probably past its best now even if the stylus is ok, and replacements won't be easy to find.

 

[audioaffair]

Well spotted! Not easy to see in the picture after all

 

[Anonymous]

Price was closer to £250. They do come up on ebay (one there now). As has been said, it was an AT cartridge suitably tweaked by Linn.

 

[Anonymous]

thanks guys!