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Ted Kendall · 25th Feb 2018, 9:37 pm

The V15/3 was greeted with cries of joy at the time - Bert Webb, who did most of the cartridge reviews for Hi Fi News at the time, and who later brought the Entre 1 into this country, simply said " if you know a better cartridge than this, buy it. I don't."

Predictably, the backlash wasn't long in coming, a lot of it based on sour grapes and the logical falsehood that tracking wasn't necessary for a cartridge to sound good. Faultless it may not have been - what pickup is? - but it approached the ideal more closely than most others, before or since and at any price. One of the few which improved upon it was the V15/V - I bought a V15/4 and was disappointed - the sound didn't gel in the way the 3 did. The V sang, and continues to sing, sweetly.

25th Feb 2018, 9:37 pm	#16
Ted Kendall Dekatron Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Kington, Herefordshire, UK. Posts: 3,670	Re: Unknown Shure Cartridge The V15/3 was greeted with cries of joy at the time - Bert Webb, who did most of the cartridge reviews for Hi Fi News at the time, and who later brought the Entre 1 into this country, simply said " if you know a better cartridge than this, buy it. I don't." Predictably, the backlash wasn't long in coming, a lot of it based on sour grapes and the logical falsehood that tracking wasn't necessary for a cartridge to sound good. Faultless it may not have been - what pickup is? - but it approached the ideal more closely than most others, before or since and at any price. One of the few which improved upon it was the V15/V - I bought a V15/4 and was disappointed - the sound didn't gel in the way the 3 did. The V sang, and continues to sing, sweetly.