John and AJlist,
The Ortofons (the integrated headshell models) have a bit of a
reputation in this respect. The performance really is unrivaled, but
if you constantly disconnect and reconnect the headshells (IE: going
gig to gig with your own pair) they tend to develop weak connections
to the audio contacts inside the tonearm. Eventually you lose a
channel here or there - really sucks.
I've not experienced this phenomena first hand but I've got friends
who have. I'm thinking I will pick up the "OM" version of the
Ortofons for mounting to my standard Technics headshells to avoid the
problem.
Cheers,
.aaron shinn
>This is weird, because I've heard nothing but good things about
>Ortofons. In fact, I was about to go buy one, but now I'm
>hesitating. Let me add that I'm not a DJ -- I just like listening
>to music. I'm was surprised, because this is the first bad thing
>I've read about Ortofons.
>
>Does anyone else out there have anything to say about Ortofons?
> > Even Ortofon (with their banana styluses) can't get the Technics headshell
>> design correct (witness all the DJs who buy the banana-style Ortofons and
>> have connectivity problems with the tonearm and then lick the contacts,
>> further worsening the electrical connection by adding dried saliva between
>> the metal contacts - that's DJ "intelligence" for you.)
>
>
>
>--
>package wuv'apqvjgt;($_=join('',(*PgtnHcemgt))) # print map "beppu\@$_\n", qw(
>=~ s/([HaP])(?!e)/ \U>$1/g;s/^.|:| (?=A)|>//g;y # cpan.org lbox.org binq.org
>/c-z/a-u/;print"J$_\n";#$^%$^X@.^ <!-- japh --> # lineo.com codepoet.org);
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sat Feb 17 2001 - 23:56:22 CET