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Would you use an Ortofon A90 on a Jelco tonearm?

Friends,
i sold my ART9 cartridge and now looking for an upgrade. I like Ortofon carts. I have been able to locate a low mileage A90 and a Per  windfeld cartridge that I could afford. I don't have a top quality tonearm though. Would you put an A90 on a tonearm like Jelco 750d ? Or would you spend additional $1000 on a better tonearm and get a less exotic cart like the windfeld ?
pani
rauliruegas
13,129 posts
 
Dear @pani : First Ortofon is not the only alternative for you. van den Hul Colibri is an exceptional performer and Shelter 9000 or its Accord are really good.

I like Ortofon a lot and I fall in love with when owned the MC 2000, from there I owned and listen almost all the top Ortofon cartridges. As fact the 7500 that owns lewm I was the original owner.

Now, Jelco is a good tonearm but top cartridges deserves top tonearms that been very well damped, with top internal wire quality, user friendly and with all the facilities for the cartridge set up parameters.

My advise is to change the Jelco too.

Btw and about the re-tipping subject no one can make at first rate quality the re-tipping as the original manufacturer.
@wrm57 talking of Soundsmith:  """  The only difference is that I now keep the arm parallel rather than significantly raised in the back, so he might have changed the SRA from factory. """::

the true Replicant 100 cartridge stylus just never changed in its shape for the owners needs to make a new SRA set up. Ortofon is very clear about.
In the other side wrm57 losted the opportunity that with the Ortofon retipping puts his sample with Ortofon up-dates that only Ortofon knows ! ! ! 

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.




lewm
13,776 posts
 
I forgot to mention that I also own an MC2000, re-tipped by Axel under the auspices of a person who lives in Europe and who then sold it to me.  The seller is near and dear to our hearts.  I need to drag the MC2000 out of storage and give it another go.
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chakster
6,144 posts
 
Which sut, headamp or phono stage do you use with MC2000, Lew ?
And which tonearm ? My ortofon MC200 is here in the box.
herndonb
124 posts
 
I'm running an MC-A90 on a Denon DP500M which I think uses a Jelco tone arm. It works excellent. Almost no rumble (excess woofer shake), and it sounds very, very good...
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nandric
4,086 posts
 

Bimasta, Your first two sentences are contradictory in the sense

that praise and critical remarks don't mix well. In my reading

you wrote: ''I enjoy your post but what you write make no sense''.

You ''argument'' was : ''my Koetsu has no hole in its cantilever

so searching for styli which will fit in the cantilevers holes make

no sense''. I called your reasoning ''induction'' and illustrated this

kind of reasoning by: ''my girl is a hooker so all girls are hooker''.

This is exactly the same ''argument'' as your Koetsu whithout hole.

You other , ''simplicity argument'' , is that gluing the stylus  at the

under side of the canilever (aka ''without hole'') is easy and should

be cheaper. I assume that you do this kind of retipping by yourself 

so you know what is involved. Well what is involved is first additional

treatment of the styli by cutting them ''shorter'' for the purpose. Then

the glue need to be used on both sides ; the stylus and the

cantilever such that we get an ''elastic connection'' between them.

Alas. As J. Carr mentioned in the same thread about cantilevers

materials the drawback by ''exotic materialls'' is that glue must be

used for them. The glue between the stylus and the cantilever

is not such a good thing because of the needed rigidity between

the involved parts. I am not sure if in this context or connection

a hole with stylus glued IN is worst  then the whole stylus surface

glued at the under side of the cantilever. Speaking about ''simplicity''.

I thought that Einstein meant something totally different (grin).



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