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I bought a new cartridge - an Ortofon 2M Bronze, intending to install it on my Empire 698, but I've hit a roadblock. The headshell seems to accept only unthreaded cartridges and the ortofon is threaded and is meant to mount with the screws threaded from above the headshell into the cartridge threads. But the Empire has a plastic finger lift glued to the top of the headshell blocking access from the top of the headshell - seemingly negating the installation of any cartridge with threaded mounting holes.
Am I condemned to only using cartridges that can be mounted from the bottom of the cartridge up into the headshell? If so I am thoroughly disappointed.
Anybody out there able to help me with this?
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The cartridge carrier/headshell should be able to detach, with just enough room for the bolt heads to slip in from the top, I beleive. With the 598, the cartridge carrier has the same problem, as the cart mtg bolt heads often had to be filed to fit the cart carrier groove, after removing the sliding captive nuts. Worst case, drill through the mounting threads on your new Orto, or, drill through the Empire headshell/cart carrier.
Thank you - I did try to remove the plastic assembly finger lift - but its like its glued on - no easy way to remove it, but that would seem to be the best solution. I'm going to work on it this weekend; hopefully I can figure out how to remove it. If anyone has any trick to remove it I'd appreciate hearing about it.
Thanks
Hi,
The lexan fingerlift is not glued on, it has a couple of tiny dimples that press into tiny holes
in the headshell. The lift will snap off,and
will snap back on, but it will never be as tight as before without some glue.
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