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Pros & Cons
Pros
It's easy to install and should last a while as long as it’s properly cared for. The old stylus comes off easily if you squeeze and pull in the intuitive direction. Definitely recommend seller, excellent replacement stylus.
Unbelievable sound out of a modestly priced cartridge. Best $100 cartridge on the market bar nunn.
The red is a fine entry-level audiophile product, at an excellent price. The sound it produce is very clean and crisp. As a veteran producer and musician that the sound is great from this stylus.
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Quality
I am very happy with this product
After the breakin period i came to the conclusion that the blue delivered a better more lifelike experience especially with the highs
The first stylus lasted almost 3 years of hard use before i started to notice a decline in sound quality
The upgraded sonics provided by replacing the factoryprovided cartridge with the red were dramatic and indisputable
Price
Price is right and swap out is fast and easy
But the red is a fine entrylevel audiophile product at an excellent price
Shipping
This is the needle for my project turn table so i was worried about getting it damaged in shipping
Competitiveness
Simple ortofon styling where all i had to do was slide off the old and slide on the new
I first went with ortofon about three years ago at the urging of an audio guru who heard me griping about the sound from my mus... Read More
If there is a better turntable cartriddge in this price range than the ortofon red i would like to know about it but im not aware of it
Unbelievable sound out of a modestly priced cartridge
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- This product had a total of 709 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 3 2022.
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The first stylus lasted almost 3 years of hard use before i started to notice a decline in sound quality
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I dont understand why the stylus alone costs almost as much as the cartridge
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
All the fittings are by friction
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Keep the old one around to figure out the orientation of the new one unless you have a fine topological mind
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Once you have the right direction the new stylus slips on easily
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Now the good part theres a stylus cover which also comes off with a little pull in a direction completely different than the direction of mounting the stylus itself
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In other words when you pull off the cover you can not mess up the orientation of the stylus
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But the box in which needle is packed was really good and safe
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