Removable headshells 101

Your influence is far and deep, Raul. Turns out the previous owner of my Azden removed the adapter's pins based on your recommendation in the mm thread. I ordered a new adapter so I should be able to listen to it next week. Maybe I'll try drilling larger holes in my current adapter so the headshell pins will fit through. Might as well try as it's unusable for me right now.

Mounted the Empire on an Orsonic headshell. Will report some thoughts about it next week.

Dear Nandric,

Thank you for your clarification. And it was not my intention to be rude. I apologize if it seemed so to you.

Greetings
Blam!

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Thanks Raul, I thought that to be true:-)

Dear Banquo363: The best connection for the Azden is " direct connection FASHION ", that's direct to the cartridge pin connectors. For you can do this you have to take off/out the adaptor pin connectors and find headshell leads connectors that could fit those cartridge pin connectors that are so thin.

Anyway, you are in the " road " again.

Regrads and enjoy the music,
Raul.

I don't know how I missed this thread!....

Perhaps the fact that I was not (yet) focused on the headshell side of things.

My switch back to the Revox yesterday highlighted a resonance at 300Hz that I had assumed (wrongly) was a property of the test tracks....

I have a suspicion that the 300Hz resonance (bell curve centered around 250 to 300Hz extending roughly 1 octave each way to around 150Hz and 600Hz - center/peak and width varies a little with cartridge/headshell) is caused by the movement between arm/headshell.

Has anyone done any analysis/work on this?

The Revox 1 piece arm fitted with a p-mount adapter, shows the same effect but with around half the amplitude (1db as opposed to 2db on the JVC S-Arm).

Do any specific headshells reduce/control this better than others?

What about the two pin headshells? (one above, one below - like the Orsonic AV-1)

I also have a couple of AT headshells for which I need those very short screws.... anyone out there have some ideas as to where one might find some?

Although I have a wide variety of headshells now - primarily focused on lightweight models, as most of my cartridges are high compliance - I have normally chosen a headshell for a cartridge based on rigidity and mass considerations - without experimenting with differing headshells. It appears I may need to take my experimentation down the headshell path as well.

Bye for now

David