Would you use an Ortofon A90 on a Jelco tonearm?

Dear @herndonb : Jelco builds tonearms to some different audio companies and makes it under the specifications of those companies.

In the other side the one in your Denon looks more like a Technics  one than a Jelco.


Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

Dear @pani : First Ortofon is not the only alternative for you. van den Hul Colibri is an exceptional performer and Shelter 9000 or its Accord are really good.

I like Ortofon a lot and I fall in love with when owned the MC 2000, from there I owned and listen almost all the top Ortofon cartridges. As fact the 7500 that owns lewm I was the original owner.

Now, Jelco is a good tonearm but top cartridges deserves top tonearms that been very well damped, with top internal wire quality, user friendly and with all the facilities for the cartridge set up parameters.

My advise is to change the Jelco too.

Btw and about the re-tipping subject no one can make at first rate quality the re-tipping as the original manufacturer.
@wrm57 talking of Soundsmith:  """  The only difference is that I now keep the arm parallel rather than significantly raised in the back, so he might have changed the SRA from factory. """::

the true Replicant 100 cartridge stylus just never changed in its shape for the owners needs to make a new SRA set up. Ortofon is very clear about.
In the other side wrm57 losted the opportunity that with the Ortofon retipping puts his sample with Ortofon up-dates that only Ortofon knows ! ! ! 

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

Dear @analogluvr : """  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!! """

Marketing?, you are wrong the Replicant 100 is not only marketing but something special, some says that's a Gyger variant and could be. 
The patent by Gyger comes from the 80's end and the Replicant 100 comes from around those years when appeared for the first time in the MC 3000.

Note that I said a variant but not similar, is an Ortofon exclusive for what I understand.


Yes, as @stringreen  posted very sensitive to tiny changes in VTA/SRA and very sensitive because its very special shape.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

Dear @pani : Ask you somenthing like this: would I send my " Ferrari " to fix it at Ford or GM?

In the case of top LOMC cartridges it's just a mistake to send the cartridge to and after market re-tippers.

When we send the cartridge to the original manufacturer we have several advantages: first is that it signature quality sound level does not changes, second is that the cartridge manufacturer not only fix the cartridge but if exist any additional " problem " , that re-tippers can't detect, they will fixed, if at the time we send the cartridge to the manufacturer exist any kind of up-date ( unknow for us. ) they will do it free of charge ( this happens with any manufacturer not only Ortofon but Lyra or van  den Hul. )

No re-tipper can knows all the why's that the cartridge designers took in count for the whole cartridge design. It was the  designer whom made the cartridge voicing till he was satisfied with.
When the cartridge is sended to the manufacturer they check the overall design and that the cartridge meets the specific specifications for that model. Re-tippers can't do it and not because theirs knowledge levels that allmost all have but because they do not know critical information only the designers have.

When we send a top cartridge to re-tippers what we recieve is a different cartridge.

So it's up to each one of us.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.