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Ortofon - 2M Red Replacement Stylus

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Pros & Cons

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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.