#1 Buggering around with headshells
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:20 pm
Do headshells make a difference?
Apparently they do. I havent had an arm with a detachable headshell in years, the jvc robot arm is the first one ive used for a long time.
I put the at150 sa in a pioneer headshell wot came with the r200 arm as I wanted to use a lightweight one for it given the cart weight is about 9 or 10 g. The pioneer one looks like an sme one, pressed aluminium with a load of holes in it.
In the pioneer one it sounded abit crap. Not as good as it did in the jelco one.
However, the goldring eroica L was in that one.
The other 'good' headshell I have is the jvc magnesium one which is abit too heavy for the at, but as the eroica weighs In at about 6 g, its fine for that. So abit of faffing, and the at is in the jelco one, and the eroica is in the jvc one
The eroica and at150 can be swapped in and out as im using the denon ha500 step up wot I got off our Ali, and the eroica does sound better in the heavier jvc headshell.
And the at150 sounds much better in the jelco one.
Why is this? Im wondering if it is to do with resonances in the headshells as the mass is not a great deal different between the jelco one and the pioneer one, its about 3 g different, but the jelco one is probably much stiffer being a solid block rather than a pressing.
The eroica is probably better as the compliance is alot lower so the extra mass of the jvc one its in is helping.
Anyone looked at this before? And has anyone tried a wooden one?
Apparently they do. I havent had an arm with a detachable headshell in years, the jvc robot arm is the first one ive used for a long time.
I put the at150 sa in a pioneer headshell wot came with the r200 arm as I wanted to use a lightweight one for it given the cart weight is about 9 or 10 g. The pioneer one looks like an sme one, pressed aluminium with a load of holes in it.
In the pioneer one it sounded abit crap. Not as good as it did in the jelco one.
However, the goldring eroica L was in that one.
The other 'good' headshell I have is the jvc magnesium one which is abit too heavy for the at, but as the eroica weighs In at about 6 g, its fine for that. So abit of faffing, and the at is in the jelco one, and the eroica is in the jvc one
The eroica and at150 can be swapped in and out as im using the denon ha500 step up wot I got off our Ali, and the eroica does sound better in the heavier jvc headshell.
And the at150 sounds much better in the jelco one.
Why is this? Im wondering if it is to do with resonances in the headshells as the mass is not a great deal different between the jelco one and the pioneer one, its about 3 g different, but the jelco one is probably much stiffer being a solid block rather than a pressing.
The eroica is probably better as the compliance is alot lower so the extra mass of the jvc one its in is helping.
Anyone looked at this before? And has anyone tried a wooden one?