Hello,

Lovely to see these nice Beograms...!

Last week I aquired my first Beogram 3000 type 5210.

I have since long a beomaster+beolab 5000 and bevox 5000+2500 that will accompany the player.

Now, if I want to have a nice listening experience - which pickup should I use? I got myself an unplayed SP12 the other day from ebay.de but after reading a bit it seems to me that it might be too light for the tone arm?

Right now there are a gold SP6-7 mounted. It sounds very good - are the newer versions as good?

Can anyone help me out here and suggest a good pickup?

Thank You,

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The best original cartridge to get is the SP8/9 - this had an elliptical stylus. However you could have a custom cartridge made - I have the 12" arm on my 3000 and this normally takes an SP2. Frede at Classic Audio commissioned Axel to make a special cartridge for me and this is superb. You can contact Axel at https://www.schallplattennadeln.de/

The TD124 mkII is a wonderful deck - the bass is far more extended than any of the more common Beograms and it is a delight to use. It is however completely manual! Bu you have to clean the record each time so that is no real problem in my view!