You are correct; I have never had this problem. But then again, I have never put ortofon needles on my decks. I do however know a couple different people who this has happened to, maybe its something else they are doing to their decks to cause this problem but they swear it was the Orts that did it. I use Stanton AL500II mounted to technics head shells and have no complaints.
I have a pair of used (not by me) Concord pro S sitting here, one with broken needle. 40 bucks plus shipping if anyone wants them. Has anyone tried or seen the Shure Whitelabel cartridges that are out? Real funky looking and are supposed to sound real nice. Here is a link to the website. http://www.needlz.com/cartridges/whitelabel.asp Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:21 AM 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
