Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp

Dear @stereo5  : Obviously with all respect.You arrived to Agon in 2008 and you have 6,283 posts that are a lot and that could means you were/are participating in hundreds of threads in the forum.

So, it is weird that from all those years you never had the opportunity to read any of the over 850 SPU references/posts in Agon.

Nothing wrong with that,only that the SPU cartridges are perhaps the most famous Ortofon cartridge models.

Never mind, it's just that I was thinking " loud " in that issue. Sorry.

R.

SPU - Stereo Pick Up.

STEP 1 - Turn on computer

STEP 2 - Click on G O O G LE 

STEP 3 - key in SPU C A R T R I D G E 

STEP 4 - hit the E N T E R button

Takes about 4 - 5 seconds

@dover  Your sarcasm is terrible, do better

@rauliruegas .  It was a spur of the moment post as I thought the gain amplifier was part of the SPU and did not know that it was an Ortofon product.  I thought everyone made them at one time or another.

@stereo5 : I think that the Ortofon SPU models were the first integrated cartridge that appeared in the market and that in the latest times we can buy in stand alone version ( some models. ) too.

Through the years other cartridge manufacturers did it the same and in no one of theirs cartridges came with head-amp integrated. Some of those manufacturers were/are ( as Ortofon some models came too in stand alone version and even in plug-in version. ):

EMT,Audio Technica, Fidelity Research, Sonovox, Glanz, Goldbug, Sony, Ikeda, Signet, Grace, Audio Note,Yamaha, Technics, Thorens, Acutex, Dynavector, Azden, ADC, Shure, Nagatron, etc,etc.

If we are willing to do the Audio World gives us the opportunity that every day be a learning day for any of us.

R.