Would you use an Ortofon A90 on a Jelco tonearm?


Friends,
i sold my ART9 cartridge and now looking for an upgrade. I like Ortofon carts. I have been able to locate a low mileage A90 and a Per  windfeld cartridge that I could afford. I don't have a top quality tonearm though. Would you put an A90 on a tonearm like Jelco 750d ? Or would you spend additional $1000 on a better tonearm and get a less exotic cart like the windfeld ?
pani

Showing 8 responses by analogluvr

I can't find an effective mass for the jelco. I hate it when they don't give you that crucial spec!  
I have a per windfeld that I was thinking about selling if your interested. I am second owner. The first guy bought it as a demo from a dealer without the original packaging. Estimated to have about 300 hours on it. 
I would definitely put it on a jelco if compliance was a match on the vinyl engine calculator. They are good arms. 
Great cartridge too, I am only thinking of selling it because it doesn't work well on any of my arms. It's heavy with high compliance which is a bit limiting. 
I don't think that Soundsmith does but I believe Andy does.  Could be wrong about Soundsmith though.
Pani I would think you can get it retipped with a different style of tip no problem.  The replicant 100 may probably just be Ortofon's name for one of the existing shapes.  Marketing!!  I got a Lyra Delos retipped by an aftermarket service and it worked great. And I mean an actual tip put on the existing cantilever.  I would never go with a different cantilever unless I had to ie it was broken off.
I'm not sure if its aloud or not but I figured I would mention that I just listed the Per Windfeld.  Check it out if you like, its a great price.  If its not aloud, moderators just remove this last statement. 
Windfeld is very very good but not a match for either of my 2 arms. I'm sticking with a vdh colibri and a Lyra helikon. 
I found the Benz sound to be a little fat for my system and liking.   Tried 2 of them one was the gold and the other the reference. Reference was supposed to be quite good 
 I find the compliance matching to be of the greatest importance as far as arm cartridge  synergy. Unfortunately it seems that many people do not pay that much attention to that. 
 I just find that you often read of ridiculous  statements like my Denon 103 sounds great on my Infiniti black widow. Well not to say it doesn't sound acceptable but it would sound a heck of a lot better on a fr64.  So I agree that there may be outliers based on arms with resonant damping properties but you cannot cheat physics. And it seems too many folks involved with analogue play back pay zero attention To these basic parameters.