Ortofon cart/stylus question

[ikorman]

I have a couple of Ortofon carts and styli right now. The OMB cart with Stylus 7 is mounted on a Technics headshell. My Stylus 20 mounted on an Ortofon p-mount cartridge. The goal is to have two full headshells with installed cartridges and styli.

I guess I could mount a silly p-mount adapter into a headshell, and install the Stylus 20 in a p-mount shell, but that's just too much componentry (if that's even a word).

They make a Concorde piece which mount to the tonearm and just takes the Ortofon stylus, but I can't seem to find one cheap. Also, I am not sure it will be fully compatible with my Stylus 20. Any ideas? Or where to get a Concorde by itself at a reasonable price?

 

[lini]

I guess you'd best look for a used OM(B) body without or with broken needle and mount that onto another halfich-mount headshell, 'cause a Hifi-Concorde body will be hard to dig up for a good price nowadays - and both the OMP in a halfinch mount adaptor and a DJ/Pro-Concorde body would result in rather high effective masses, which I wouldn't deem such a good idea (at least not without some additional tonearm damping...).

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[E.Man]

Any of the OM styli will fit a Concorde, but it doesn't work the other way around.

I suggest replacing the Pmount with a standard OM cart/headshell. That will get you closer to having easily changed setups.

 

[ikorman]

Thanks to all who contributed. Here are my results...