Ortofon Headshells

Ortofon Headshells

The headshell attaches the phono cartridge to the tonearm of your record player.

Having a removable headshell allows you to switch out your cartridge headshell for one that has a better weight to create high-quality sounds, especially if you are a DJ or an audiophile.

SH-4 Headshell

The Ortofon SH-4 headshell is the perfect match for the Ortofon 2M Series cartridges, though the universal fittings mean almost any cartridge can be fitted.

SH-4 Specification

HEADSHELL DIMENSIONS (LENGTH EXCL. CONNECTOR X WIDTH) – 51.5 x 20.0 mm

CARTRIDGE MOUNTING DISTANCE (MINIMUM – MAXIMUM DISTANCE FROM CONNECTOR) – 36.4 – 45.4 mm

LH-2000 Headshell

The LH-2000 is a basic high quality headshell designed specifically for HiFi applications.

Providing a clean, minimalist aesthetic, the LH-2000 is great for a wide variety of cartridges.

LH-2000 specification

HEADSHELL WEIGHT – 15.5 g

HEADSHELL DIMENSIONS (LENGTH EXCL. CONNECTOR X WIDTH) – 50.3 x 20.0 mm

CARTRIDGE MOUNTING DISTANCE (MINIMUM – MAXIMUM DISTANCE FROM CONNECTOR) – 35.3 – 43.4 mm

LH-4000 Headshell

The LH-4000 is a basic high quality headshell designed specifically for HiFi applications.

Providing a clean, minimalist aesthetic, the LH-4000 is great for a wide variety of cartridges, specially recommended for the MC Quintet series.

The LH-4000 comes with leadwires for easy and convenient connection.

All Ortofon cartridges have a colour coding of the terminals, indicating red and green for right channel hot and ground terminals and white and blue for left channel hot and ground terminals respectively.

Green terminal will always be used for grounding the cartridge housings or motor-system, whenever connected to the cartridge.

We recommend that you connect the lead wires to the cartridge and headshell before mounting the cartridge on the headshell as this is much easier than fitting once in place.

Please remember correct the orientation of the leads. Ortofon cartridges’ terminal PINs diameter is 1.2 mm, whilst Ortofon headshells’ PINs diameter is only 1.0 mm.

These figures are stamped on to the cable connectors.

LH-4000 specification

HEADSHELL WEIGHT – 14.3 g

HEADSHELL DIMENSIONS (LENGTH EXCL. CONNECTOR X WIDTH) – 51.9 x 19.1 mm

CARTRIDGE MOUNTING DISTANCE (MINIMUM – MAXIMUM DISTANCE FROM CONNECTOR) – 39.5 – 45.6 mm

LH-6000 Headshell

The LH-6000 is a high quality headshell designed specifically for the Kontrapunkt series, Jubilee, MC Windfeld and Cadenza Series cartridges.

Its rounded front portion facilitates proper mounting and compliments each of these cartridges.

LH-6000 specification

HEADSHELL WEIGHT – 13.5 g

HEADSHELL DIMENSIONS (LENGTH EXCL. CONNECTOR X WIDTH) – 47.5 x 19.1 mm

CARTRIDGE MOUNTING DISTANCE (MINIMUM – MAXIMUM DISTANCE FROM CONNECTOR) – 36.6 – 42.4 mm

LH-9000 Headshell

Exceptionally high quality carbon fibre headshell, the LH-9000 is made using carbon fibre resin for the elimination of unwanted resonances.

The LH-9000 is perfect for a variety of high-end cartridges.

LH-9000 Specification

HEADSHELL WEIGHT – 16.8 g

HEADSHELL DIMENSIONS (LENGTH EXCL. CONNECTOR X WIDTH) – 52.0 x 20.0 mm

CARTRIDGE MOUNTING DISTANCE (MINIMUM – MAXIMUM DISTANCE FROM CONNECTOR) – 38.1 – 44.9 mm