Cartridge upgrade help

July 8, 2008 - 11:48am

JIMV

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Cartridge upgrade help

July 8, 2008 - 1:40pm

jackfish

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I'd look at getting a replacement stylus for an OM 30 or OM 40.

July 9, 2008 - 8:29pm

JIMV

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Thanks, anything else?

July 10, 2008 - 6:16am

jackfish

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A OM 30 ($155) replacement stylus will turn your cartridge into a $205 cartridge and a OM 40 ($225) a $275 cartridge. The Super versions supposedly have better internal compenents.

For your turntable the Ortofon OM 40 (your cartridge upgraded with the OM 40 stylus) would provide very good listening indeed.

July 11, 2008 - 1:48pm

JIMV

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Thanks:

I am going increasingly retro, I bought my first actual turntable in over 30 years. It was so long ago I had to relearn everything I had known about record players, cartridges, and stylus designs. Worse, even my basic receiver, what I use for video, TV, and DVD

July 11, 2008 - 2:16pm

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Now I need more records..

Always!

July 11, 2008 - 2:27pm

JIMV

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I suspect a modest trip to my local record exchange is rushing at me...

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