Headshell recommendations for AT33SA on SL1200G
+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. |
Dear @diceman72 : No, you don't have to change the Technics headshell with that new cartridge. What is my advise is to change the headshell leads/wires for a better quality ones and when you do that you will listen at once the quality improvement no matters what. Of course you listen that new cartridge with the original headshell leads and then listen it after the better leads change. You have to go step by stwep on your analog up-grades. Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
