A pickup cartridge comprises essentially a cartridge body provided with an inducing magnet and a stylus assembly which is detachably installed in the cartridge body. This stylus assembly comprises: a vibrating structure comprising a stylus, a cantilever arm, and an armature; a tubular guard member surrounding this vibrating structure; a damper for holding the vibrating structure in a manner permitting its oscillatory vibration within this guard member; a tension wire for pulling the vibrating structure in the direction opposite to that in which it is pulled as a result of the frictional force between the stylus and the record disc; and a magnetic member for anchoring one end of the wire and, at the same time, when the stylus assembly is installed in the cartridge body, intimately contacting the inducing magnet thereby to direct and pass the magnetic flux thereof toward the armature.