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Replacement Stylus for Ortofon Concorde 30
1) After some 25 years of non-use, I am getting back in re-using my
turntable and tape deck etc as part of my home theatre. Nostalgia has got the better of me. I want to pursue replacing the stylus for my Ortofon Concorde 30 ( on a Technic SLQ2 turntable). I seem to ahve two choices. I can buy a stylus specific for the Concorde 30(at well over $100), or , I can by a cost effective replacement , ie an LM-10 which wwould fit, such as the one offered at http://www.audioreplay.net/otherstyli.html . The question is, while it is true that the latter is not up to the same spec as the orginal I am replacing, will I hear the difference??? I will be doing a fair bit of transferring of LPs to CD, so I do want a new stylus, but can I get away with a $23 reaplcement?...that would be ideal....but not if it turns my system into a junky record player!! Any advice would be appreciated. The rest of the system has Klipsch Reference speakers, HK AVR-525 reciever, Teac A6300 deck, etc. 2) Also after all these years, I have completely forgotten how one aligns a cartridge! I recall spending a lot of time on this 35 years ago in my teenage youth, but I don't remember a thing now!!. I still have the original Orotofon box so perhaps there are some intructions there (or a web site somewehre). BUT.....do I even need to worry about this it I am only changing out the stylus??? Many thanks Marvin |
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Marvin G wrote:
1) After some 25 years of non-use, I am getting back in re-using my turntable and tape deck etc as part of my home theatre. Nostalgia has got the better of me. I want to pursue replacing the stylus for my Ortofon Concorde 30 ( on a Technic SLQ2 turntable). I seem to ahve two choices. I can buy a stylus specific for the Concorde 30(at well over $100), or , I can by a cost effective replacement , ie an LM-10 which wwould fit, such as the one offered at http://www.audioreplay.net/otherstyli.html . The question is, while it is true that the latter is not up to the same spec as the orginal I am replacing, will I hear the difference??? I will be doing a fair bit of transferring of LPs to CD, so I do want a new stylus, but can I get away with a $23 reaplcement?...that would be ideal....but not if it turns my system into a junky record player!! Any advice would be appreciated. The rest of the system has Klipsch Reference speakers, HK AVR-525 reciever, Teac A6300 deck, etc. snip In case you don't get a definitive, educated response to your question, I'll provide my ignorant uneducated opinion regarding what I would do. If it was ME, rather than coughing up probably $140 for the correct replacement, I'd give the $23 stylus a shot. It may or may not sound significantly different from the original. I think it's worth a try. And you're only out $23 if it doesn't sound good. Another possibility would be to replace the cart entirely with something relatively inexpensive. Don't quote me on this, but I recall a number of folks fairly recently recommending a specific model of Audio-Technica cart that was somewhere around 60 bucks. And I think Grado makes a couple of low priced cartridges that are highly recommended. Sorry I can't be more specific, but I just don't follow these things much these days. Also, a Technics SLQ2 isn't exactly SOTA, so I wouldn't sink too much money into a cartridge for it, but that's just me. And don't think I'm "dissing" your turntable. I'm using a Technics SL1800mk2 with a Shure V-15 type4 cart myself! : ) Good luck on your quest for a stylus, and hopefully you'll get a more definitive answer from someone more in tune with such things. |
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