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I'm going to call this confirmed, as a German man, via a Dutch friend, has come back with photos of the DDR (East German) cartridge. A pretty good match! The middle photo is the dovetail thing that the cartridge slots in to. Curiously, it appears the device only uses the L & R pins, and...

Sort of, possibly? I rotated it 90 degrees. Possible I went the wrong way. It's mounted entirely sideways in the device. It's not a record player! It's a bit of spy gear. This is the other photo that exists. The way I think it worked is it used the record player cartridge to listen to the lock...

I know that the other end of this goes into an audio circuit, because I've identified the 3.5mm headphone jack. It's vaguely possible they made the "needle" thicker. Also, there's a really sharp shadow that makes everything look far thicker with a black outline.

Seems unlikely. It's about 15mm x 15mm cross section ignoring the dovetail, and 24mm long excluding needle and cable. Too small for even a single Stormtrooper.

Hi, I'm not an audio person at all, this is for a weird project I'm doing. There's this obscure, ultra-rare STAZI (Yes, East German intelligence!) tool, and I looked at the image the other day and thought "That's a gramophone needle and pickup!" It dates from around 1980, East Germany. The top...