Mono Ortofon Cart

[Squishman]

If anyone is interested, Andrew at Parlogram on Youtube will be reviewing the white Ortofon 2M Mono cartridge on next week's video. He usually posts on Sundays, so that would be 7-27-25. https://www.youtube.com/@Parlogram

 

[TLS Guy]

If anyone is interested, Andrew at Parlogram on Youtube will be reviewing the white Ortofon 2M Mono cartridge on next week's video. He usually posts on Sundays, so that would be 7-27-25. https://www.youtube.com/@Parlogram

The Decca FFSS PU heads from the earliest days of stereo in 1958 where designed to be entirely mono compatible. That is because the coils were not at 45/45 degrees to the record surface. One coil was horizontal as it would be in a mono cartridge and the other coil vertical. So it played a mono record like a mono cartridge. The downside was slightly less vertical compliance than horizontal compliance.

My Decca cartridge playing the first LP I ever bought, age 8 back in 1955.

 

[Squishman]

The Decca FFSS PU heads from the earliest days of stereo in 1958 where designed to be entirely mono compatible. That is because the coils were not at 45/45 degrees to the record surface. One coil was horizontal as it would be in a mono cartridge and the other coil vertical. So it played a mono record like a mono cartridge. The downside was slightly less vertical compliance than horizontal compliance.

My Decca cartridge playing the first LP I ever bought, age 8 back in 1955.

How does that record sound now?

 

[TLS Guy]

How does that record sound now?

I will play it for you when you come over.