Needle Question

[Otacon]

oh shit i feel like a fool now, i was thinking the one on the Shure site was for one. lol my bad

[icb]

OP's original question: OM vs. Concorde. If you want Ortofon (which I don't like compared to Shure), I recommend the OM versions. Headshells (even the cheap Stanton ones) are better built than Concordes.

I have never seen a Concorde that wasn't broken unless it was still in a shop being sold. The arms are really fragile. Headshells are built better.

So are Shure Whitelabels, which sound better than anything Ortofon that I've heard and have cheaper replacement styli.

I'd still recommend anything Shure over anything Ortofon if the prices are even close to comparable, but if you're going Ortofon, Concordes aren't worth it.



It's a plastic thing. Just order one and use it. It takes like 5 minutes.



Yeah. But vinyl already sounds bad enough, there's no reason to make it worse just out of laziness.

Seriously…it's not that hard to use an overhang gauge, and you only have to do it once if you don't take your carts off the headshells (mine have been together since 2006).

Its not about laziness, it's about not having that thing and not being able to get in the possession of it. I live in Bosnia and I can barely choose the needles I want (for example although I used ortofon until now, now I'm forced to go for shure as I cant get any ortofon here).

Btw, I think I will go with M44G or if they dont have two of them (yes, thats the problem too !), I will go for M44-7.

Hopefully I will not make a mistake after using Ortofon Concorde Pro's for several years now :/

[djproben]

oh shit i feel like a fool now, i was thinking the one on the Shure site was for one. lol my bad

it's the same product; the "list" price is bogus, noone ever pays that much for it. That said, the amazon price is damn good for that; I've seen them normally go for about 90-110 pre-mounted like that. When I bought my carts they were about $70 without the headshells. That was like 2000 though.

Oh and pre-mounted means you don't have to deal with protractors or plastic bits unless you want to check their work; not to mention no squinting at wire connectors. But yeah you only have to do it once; I haven't messed with them since 2000 other than to change the tips. (Which runs about $30 each btw).