A:Answer If you are interested in replacing the stylus only, the original stylus was the ATN3472NE. This was a nude mount type stylus, meaning the tip and shank were made from a single piece of diamond. The ATN3472SE was the next step down with the only difference being a bonded type stylus, meaning the tip is bonded to a shank of a different material (usually steel). Nude styli are regarded as being better than bonded styli. When a tip is bonded to the shank, the bonding agent presents another medium which the vibrations form the tip have to pass through, and it adds more mass to the tip. A bonded tip has to be aligned to the shank before mounting where a nude tip does not. There is room for error in alignment when bonding. The AT450 was a Universal type cartridge. That is, it was a p-mount (plug-in) type cartridge with an adapter provided for mounting it to a standard half-inch headshell. If you are using the cartridge as a p-mount type, the AT92ECD Cartridge is the closest thing we have today to your AT450. If you are using it as a half-inch headshell type, the AT92ECD does come with the half-inch mount adapter. Other half-inch only type cartridges, such as the VM530EN Cartridge, would be comparable.
