Replacement for Sharp STY-118E STY118E stylus

LP GEAR CARBON FIDELITY CFN95SE STYLUS 
- Music that makes you want to listen.™

Listen to the new voice of music. Carbon fiber composites offer 10 times the strength of steel at half the weight. Codeveloped and designed with LP GEAR by Audio-Technica's best engineers, the new Carbon Fidelity 95 Spectra Elliptical (CFN95SE) stylus benefits from the latest quality parts and materials technology featuring a carbon fiber cantilever that seriously upgrades performance. The updated design, tight specifications, Twin-Flux™ magnets, high-quality moving system fulcrum and radial damping ring allied with a Spectra elliptical diamond tip produce music that makes you want to listen.

Existing CF95SE cartridge owners will continue to enjoy their elevated sound quality with this stylus. Owners of AT95 cartridges and its many models can also elevate sound quality by simply swapping their existing stylus with the CFN95SE stylus.

Mastered to illuminate against lofty cartridges beyond the economics of most listeners, the CF95SE touches and endears the more you listen. You won't want to go back to your underperforming or pricey cartridge. You'll hear, feel and sense the music exquisitely rendered — harmonically full-bodied, refractive and refreshingly crystal clean with luminous detail spatially radiating with realness. You'll experience remarkable note clarity, projection and nuanced tonal complexity previously unheard and unappreciated.¹

Carbon Fidelity CFN95SE Stylus Details 
- Type: Moving Magnet VM Dual Magnet Stereo
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,5cm/sec.: 2.5 mV
- Channel balance at 1kHz: 2.0 dB or less
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: over 20 dB
- Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz
- Dynamic compliance (x10-6 cm/dyne): 6.5
- Stylus type: 0.3 × 0.7 mil Spectra Elliptical diamond
- Cantilever: Super Fidelity Carbon Fiber²
- Tracking force range: 1.5 - 2.5 g
- Tracking force recommended: 1.8 g (25 mN)
- Color: Indigo
- Recommended break-in duration: 30 hours

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Footnote 1: A high resolution system is needed to experience the nuanced tonal complexity of the CF95SE. 
Footnote 2: Carbon fiber composites offer 10 times the strength of steel at half the weight. Each producer's carbon fiber differs from those of its competitors, and the processing details are considered to be intellectual property. The special carbon fiber used in the Carbon Fidelity cartridges and styli is patiently and expertly considered for its signature characteristics to bring out the subtleties and finesse of music extracted from the grooves of records and LPs. For carbon fiber info see: "The making of carbon fiber".

LP GEAR ATN-95VL ATN 95VL ATN95VL NEEDLE STYLUS

The LP Gear ATN-95VL ATN95VL stylus features a highly polished ViVid Line diamond bonded to a thin-wall Zualum cantilever for superlative fidelity. The ATN-95VL ATN95VL stylus will upgrade the LP Gear AT95C, AT95CE, AT95E and AT95SE phono cartridges to the exemplary performance offered by the LP Gear AT-95VL AT95VL phono cartridge. Color of stylus may vary.

For a stylus replacement that offers improved sound quality and performance, refer to Related Products.

LP GEAR ATN-95SA ATN 95SA ATN95SA NEEDLE STYLUS

The LP Gear ATN-95SA ATN95SA needle stylus features an exquisitely polished Shibata diamond bonded to a thin-wall Zualum tubular cantilever for natural sound quality, long playing life and exceptional tracing of record grooves. It offers superbly detailed, full-bodied, and harmoniously complete sound quality. While there are newer designs under different nomenclatures promising better performance, we believe based on our ears and many others we trust, that our Shibata divines music with faithful accuracy and grace. This stylus offers an exquisite listening experience that keeps you wanting to play more LP's and records.

LP GEAR ATN95MR PENULTIMATE STYLUS
- High-Grade stylus for Audio-Technica AT95 and compatible cartridges

The Audio-Technica ATN95E was the stylus replacement for the highly rated AT95E cartridge that has been discontinued - victims of the consumer electronics product life cycle where the product life cycle is around 2-3 years which means a product has to be revised or updated every two years or so. On one side, this is beneficial to the industry and consumers since it forces constant research and innovation. On the other hand, it is wasteful and counterproductive. This fosters short-term quality and product thinking - products that have a short-term life on the shelf. They break or sound old after a few years!

● New High-Grade stylus ATN95MR stylus for ultimate expression of the AT95E cartridge
● Extracts and transmits micro-contours of the grooves with superb detail and clarity
● Special precision polished nude Micro Ridge diamond tip for supreme fidelity
● MicroRidge tip dimensions: 2.5µm × 75µm
● Long lasting performance and durability
● Low-mass alloy cantilevered fulcrum for groove tracing accuracy and fidelity
● LP GEAR® stylus - Above and beyond originals, copies and generics

AT LP GEAR®, our philosophy runs counter to corporate convention. We believe that products created for perfection should last a lifetime of enjoyment or much longer like the Guarneri violin. Older than the USA— 273 years old to be exact, the Vieuxtemps Guarneri Del Gesu-1741 named for its most famous owner, the leading Belgian virtuoso and composer who esteemed it so much he wanted to be buried with it, recently became the most expensive violin in the world, selling for an estimated $16 million. Its new owner anonymously donated the historic instrument to violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, on loan for the rest of her life.

Thus we curated the N95MR stylus as testament of our esteem for the Audio-Technica 95E cartridge so devoted owners will continue to hear this gem at its best for many decades to come. It is a lofty goal — we believe its new soul transcends its former self. It has incredible chemistry that is heard, felt and enjoyed!

See this customer review: "I am so impressed with the sound of this stylus...it is quite literally a jaw dropping different experience in clarity and air over my seven year old LP Gear highly acclaimed ATN95SA stylus it replaced. It was just so easy to snap on a new stylus vs. aligning a whole new LOMC cartridge as I’m now very satisfied with the supreme music fidelity of the nude micro ridge diamond ATN95MR for my Thorens TD-309 turntable. I think you’d be as happy as I am having this if you already own the original AT95 cartridge!" ¹

COMPATIBLE CARTRIDGES: AUDIO TECHNICA AT-3400, AUDIO TECHNICA AT3400, AUDIO TECHNICA AT93 AUDIO TECHNICA AT-3401, AUDIO TECHNICA AT-3410 AUDIO TECHNICA AT-3450 AKAI PC83 AKAI PC85 HITACHI MT35 HITACHI MT36 JVC MD-1038 KENWOOD V52 MAGNAVOX 560429 MAGNAVOX 25690396 MGA MITSUBISHI MAG-47 ONKYO OC-52 PANASONIC EPC75 PANASONIC EPC77 PHILIPS GP499 PIONEER PC220 SONY VL38GA,and more (Inquire for more.)

NEEDLES: AIWA AN-5 AN5 AKAI RS-83 AKAI RS-85 HITACHI DS-ST36 JVC DT-38 KENWOOD N-52 NATIONAL PANASONIC EPS-75STSD PANASONIC EPS-75SMAD PANASONIC EPS-756STED PANASONIC EPS-75STCSD PANASONIC EPS-77ST PIONEER PN-220 PIONEER PN-320 SANSUI SN-202SANYO ST35D SANYO ST41J SANYO ST42D SHARP STY118 SHARP STY130 SONY ND138G SONY ND147G TOSHIBA N60 TOSHIBA N70C TOSHIBA N71M TOSHIBA N293 YAMAHA N6700 YAMAHA N-8000 ZENITH 56-598 ZENITH 56-611, and more (Inquire for more.)

Do not order this stylus if it looks different (aside from color) from what you have. It will not fit if the original cartridge is missing or has been changed. Please contact us if you need assistance or prefer a new cartridge. If possible, provide us with the markings on the existing cartridge and stylus (look for the brand and model number). Photos will be helpful.

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Footnote 1: customer review, "LP Gear N95MR High Grade Stylus for Audio-Technica AT95 Cartridges".

LP GEAR ATN95SLC ULTIMATE STYLUS

The LP Gear ATN95SLC stylus is a new 2019 addition that extends the strength of the LP GEAR AT95E series and elevates the sound quality achievement of the best inexpensive cartridge, the AT95E, to a new higher level of musical significance thus giving the listener abundance - more discernment, more music to enjoy and audiophile fidelity captured from the record grooves. The LP Gear AT95SLC is recommended for higher quality listening and for converting records to digital when the intent is to enjoy digitized music as you would the original recording.

● Special Line Contact (SLC) diamond tip for superb tracing accuracy
● Flowing timbral accuracy, silken harmonic richness and exquisite sound quality
● .0002 x .00078 inch Nude Super Line Contact
● Listening experience above and beyond latest production version
● Crafted by world-class cartridge Takumi (master artisan) in Japan for LP GEAR®

A proven development by LP Gear, the AT95SLC AT-95SLC phono cartridge is the culmination of over a year's research, engineering development and testing of many styli from various manufacturers. We use the same exact and proven AT95E cartridge body. The critical difference is in the newly designed Nude Special Line diamond stylus carefully mounted on a thin wall alloy tubular cantilever for natural sound quality. The result - superb fidelity captured right from the record grooves.

Upgrade Path
The AT95SLC phono cartridge is the ultimate stylus within the series. For a higher level of trajectory, we recommend that you order the Vessel A3SV cartridge.