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It would have come with an SP7, unless the owner was feeling flush and decided to spring for an SP9 (gold coloured, and it came in a little rosewood box with a gold B&O badge on it too!) instead. The Beogram 1001 (same thing really) came with an SP14 from new.

An SP14 is fine so long as you have the correct cartridge body for it. The SP7 one has a flange at the back (pin end) which prevents the outer can of the SP14 stylus going back all the way. If your cartridge body in your 1000 is the later type then the SP14 is the correct replacement. Avoid the SP10 and SP12 for that application though, as mentioned in my previous reply.

Later on the SP14 was all they stocked for this range, which is great if you had a Beogram 1000 (etc) but less exciting if you had a big Beocenter 3500 and your elliptical SP12 had worn out (guess how I know!). Similarly they only made the MMC20S and the MMC4 to cover the later types, even though these were just the basic ones. A Beogram 8000 with an MMC20S in it is a strangely pitiful sight, although sometimes it is necessary.

The downforce adjustment seems to be fantastically inaccurate on the Beogram 1000 so don't trust it, especially if you go down the SP14 route. Instead, use a test record or advance the setting until the bottom of the cartridge just avoids scraping on the record. 2.5 > 3.0 on the scale is usually about right.