Look for Ortofon LH-9000 Resonance Free headshell, i hope you can find used one for reasonable price, new one is expensive. It's heavier than stock Technics and it has azimuth adjustment.
Headshell recommendations for AT33SA on SL1200G
Hello
I am planning to upgrade my cart to an AT33SA on my SL1200G, but I'm a little confused about whether this would require me to also change the headshell (low compliance cart, resonance frequency etc.).
Can I keep the standard headshell, or should I upgrade to something heavier? Can I go as heavy as an Audio-Technica LH/OCC AT-LH for example?
Many thanks!
I am planning to upgrade my cart to an AT33SA on my SL1200G, but I'm a little confused about whether this would require me to also change the headshell (low compliance cart, resonance frequency etc.).
Can I keep the standard headshell, or should I upgrade to something heavier? Can I go as heavy as an Audio-Technica LH/OCC AT-LH for example?
Many thanks!
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**Some if my favorite vintage headshells: Grace HS-8 -metal Grace HS-6 -carbon fiber (another image) AudioCraft -this one is heavy for LOMC (another image) another AudioCraft (also available in silver) Kenwood - basic, but very nice Stax -with overhang and azimuth adjustment Entre DAS-1 (also available in black) just basic headshell Fidelity-Research -nice one **And one more NEW (very expensive): ZYX Live-18 (also available in silver). |
+1 Look for Ortofon LH-9000 Resonance Free headshell, i hope you can find used one for reasonable price, new one is expensive. It's heavier than stock Technics and it has azimuth adjustment. |
The Ortofon LH-9000 would seem to me to be a bizarre recommendation in this case. Cartridge/Tonearm resonance is just about ideal with the OP's combination currently and if Pintree's experience is to be believed (and I see no reason why it shouldn't), it doesn't really make sense to replace a 7 gram headshell with one that weighs almost 17 grams. I really like the Yamamoto HS4 for the money, but even it comes in just under 11 grams so I would not be inclined to recommend it in this case. If I was the OP, I'd be looking at headshells that weigh in the 7-9 gram range. Yamamoto Boxwood is cheap and might be worth a try at around 8 grams (no experience with it and it may be horrible!). But I certainly wouldn't be spending a lot of money on any headshell weighing much more than that (at least not before auditioning, which is clearly difficult to do with headshells!) if I was the OP and committed to that cartridge/tonearm combination. |
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