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Cannot catch a break: now an Ortofon pickup.
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Last weekend I received an Ortofon pickup for my turntable. Claimed to be NOS, from Denmark (not many of them, in fact the only person who was selling it.

Today put it in my Technics. It is a T4P cartridge so it is a snap to do.

Sounds really great. I was about to leave the feedback but something stopped me. I thought the sound was asymnetric. I was playing an organ piece so the difference between the channels is not huge.
I listened to the right channel - there it was...nothing.
Put ZZ TOP sure enough, it became obvious right away.

Tried cables, nothing.

Put the old cartridge (a Stanton) back - both channels are fine.

So....return initiated to Denmark.

Ay carramba.

And it is so sad, the record of the organ really sounded wonderful.

People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.


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Cannot catch a break: now an Ortofon pickup. - by morzh - 11-25-2016, 04:41 PM



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