Technics EPC-205C

Documentation on the original EPC-205C is thin. Most of what survives in the period press is about the later EPC-205CMk4, and that review is the best record of the series. Audio (January 1986, p.80) ran a full equipment profile on the Mk4. Its test data noted excellent frequency response and very good high-frequency separation (January 1986, p.82).

According to that review, the Mk4 was a moving-magnet cartridge with a disc magnet and one-point suspension. It came as a universal plug-in headshell version or as a P-mount without the shell. Known specs from the manufacturer's data:

Cantilever: tapered boron pipe; damper: TTDD (Technics Temperament-controlled Damping? — the abbreviation is given as TTDD in the review)
Magnetic circuit: all "HPF" core, precision-polished finish
Optimum tracking force: 1.25 g; optimum anti-skating force: 1.5 g
Output: 0.706 mV/cm/s; inductance: 240 mH
IM distortion (200/4000 Hz, 4:1): lateral (+9 dB) 1.2%; vertical (+6 dB) 2.6%

Before that, a Bartletts Hi-Fi "Buyers Guide" advertisement in Audio-Collection paired the EPC-205C with the Technics SL-7 turntable, which suggests it was sold as a companion to that deck. Beyond those listings, little else is recorded about the base model.