I used to buy Stanton Carts and styli, and I was buying them about one replacement stylus every 6 months (and carts about once a year, sometimes twice), until I purchased my first set of Ortofons 4 years ago. They lasted over 2 years (styli were pretty worn, but never had any cartridge problems at all), and I'm on my third set now (one set was stolen). I've NEVER had the problem described with a tonearm, and when I was using stanton's I remember the contacts being very small, which in turn led to alot of cartridges buring out fast (and then you have to lick the contacts, etc.). I've never had to do anything like that with any ortofons that I've used. My tables are 6-7 years old, and I've been using ortofons for 4 years, with none of the aforementioned problems...
Dennis -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: (313) Cartridges for SL1200's > I would say to stay away from the one piece Ortofons. They have been known > to mess up the tone arms on technics turntables because of size the > contacts. If you can, compare how much bigger the contacts are on an ortofon > compared to a normal headshell, they will push the contacts apart inside > your tone arm causing them to come loose after time. Anyone else ever had > this problem? > I have always heard this from people who don't own ortofon needles. and have had friends who have had ortofons for a few years with no problems like this. i just can not imagine ortofon would realese a product tha would destroy the tone arm, who knows maybe i'm wrong? on the same note, stanton trackmasters and groovemasters are the same style as the ortofon one peice style and the contacts are even bigger and i never hear this rumor about them? > Ortofon makes a good sounding cartridge though, you should check out the > ones that mount under a headshell. The model #s on these all start with OM. > Musicians friend has the OM PRO S with an extra cart for 49.99 right now, > you could get 2 for just over a hundred with shipping. > i have used these carts and they sound really good and track very good. they look funky as hell. scotto laninsg, mi. plaztikjezuz.com
