Stanton

Explore Stanton vintage audio equipment in the Vintage Technology Archive.

Cartridge

• 8005M — Little is documented about the Stanton 8005M; the main trace is a 1980 High Fidelity listing pairing it with the 881S at $45.
• 881-S — Stanton 881-S Professional Calibration Standard phono cartridge — Stereohedron stylus, individually calibrated, used in disc mastering and broadcast.
• M80-ED — Stanton M80-ED phono cartridge — a thinly documented late-1960s elliptical, known mainly from a 1968 Audio magazine mail-order ad listing it for Lab 80.

Cartridges

• 500-E — Stanton 500-E: an obscure low-cost elliptical-stylus phono cartridge from Stanton's Broadcast Standard Series. Known specs and period reviews.
• 581A — The Stanton 581A 'Calibration Standard' phono cartridge (c. 1966–67): certified response, 5g weight, Longhair brush. Little documented beyond ads.
• 681-A — Little is documented about the Stanton 681-A phono cartridge; period ads for the related 681 Calibration Standard claimed a flat 10–20 kHz response and 35 dB separation.
• 800-B (c. 1964) — Stanton 800-B Stereotable, c. 1964: single-speed 33⅓ rpm turntable with Model 200 Unipoise tonearm, Gyropoise magnetic suspension, walnut base; $99 new per High Fidelity.
• 981HZS — Stanton 981HZS: little-documented Samarium Cobalt phono cartridge from 1983, known from Stanton ads. Ultra-low-mass 0.2 mg armature.

Unknown

• 481A — Stanton 481A — a little-documented 1960s Stereo Fluxvalve phono cartridge from Stanton's 481 series; known from period ads and HiFi/Stereo Review.

Other Models

• 681 Calibration Standard — Stanton 681 Calibration Standard phono cartridge, advertised 1967–1975 as a mastering reference with flat 10–20 kHz response and 35 dB separation.
• 681 Triple-E — Stanton 681 Triple-E — the calibration-standard phono cartridge disc-cutting rooms trusted as a reference playback tool, with a reduced-mass nude diamond stylus and flat response beyond 20 kc.
• 780/4DQ — Stanton 780/4DQ CD-4 cartridge — Quadrahedral stylus, ±3 dB to 25 kHz, $125 in 1974. Wideband, low IM, but a hard tonal balance.
• 880S — Stanton 880S phono cartridge — Stereohedron stylus, samarium cobalt magnets, part of Stanton's The Professionals line built on the 881S reputation.
• MODEL-196 — Stanton Model 196 UniPole tonearm — integrated Stereo Fluxvalve pickup, single friction-free pivot, hermetically sealed polystyrene, $49.50 in 1959.
• MODEL-371 — Stanton Model 371 Stereo FLUXVALVE pickup — a late-1950s Pickering-built stereo cartridge sold under the Stanton name, priced at $26.40 (A) / $24.00 (C) in 1959.
• MODEL-481E — Stanton 481E Stereo Fluxvalve Set — a 1960s professional phono cartridge bundled with three V-GUARD styli for LPs and 78s, tracking 2–5 grams.
• MODEL-500AL — Stanton 500AL — the broadcast workhorse cartridge built to survive back cueing, pitched as tougher than disc jockeys.
• MODEL-681A — Stanton 681A — the cutting-head calibration cartridge from Stanton's 681 Series, factory-calibrated for recording system alignment and shipped with individual test results.