Cartridge setup | Leads connections
All Ortofon cartridges have a colour coding of the terminals, indicating red and green for right channel respectively hot and ground terminal. White and blue for left channel respectively hot and ground terminal. Green terminal will always be used for grounding the cartridge housings or motor-system, whenever connected inside the cartridge.
We recommend to connect lead wires to the cartridge and head-shell before mounting the cartridge on the head-shell.
NB: Please remember correct orientation of the leads because of cartridge terminal PINs dimensions of 1.2 mm and headshell PINs normally only 1.0 mm. If shifted around, it may cause over-tightening of the assembly. Being aware about this detail, you will avoid the risk of having the cartridge's terminal PINs fall out.