Ortofon 2M Red VS 2M Blue - Worth the Upgrade?

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I have the red on a turntable I purchased a few years back but find I still prefer a 40+ yo Shure V15 III on an even older Dual.

Straight forward no nonsense video. I jhave aTechnics 1500c turntable which I love. It has the Ortofon 2M Red fitted as standard. I just ordered a 2M Blue today. Best deal was on Amazon for £135 which is brilliant. I did consider the 2M Bronze but having to change the full cartridge and all the faffing about really put me off. No doubt if I hear a big improvement with the Blue I will be sorely tempted to make the jump to the Bronze

Is the fact that the diamond falls apart after two days without a refund worth considering? A te l'hanno regalata quindi caxxo te ne frega ve?

Purchased the 2M Blue but ended up reinstalling the Red as it sounded warmer to my hears.

Same shape, same fluff-trapping shape underneath. Great sound but form over function.

Red is very weak, blue is very good

Interesting presentation - I am sitting on the fence about a cartridge upgrade on my Project X1 - came with Pickit cartridge ( which works quite well IMO ) but Ortofon Blue seems to be a worthwhile upgrade -- I was offered sale price Goldring E3 for 89 Euros which seems to be a good deal.. but the Ortofon Blue is perhaps the way to go..

What turntable is that you are using? Pro-ject X1?

My question is a little bit different, I am just returning to vinyl and brought a Project EVO with a Ortofon red, I think it ride low, only about 1mm between the housing and the vinyl, when the stylus is in the groove! Is it the normal ride high for this cartridge?

Jesus Christ just let us hear the sound comparison not you blabbing on you numpty

Hey, how do you clean your records, if I may ask?

Nice video thank you, I just upgraded from the red to blue on my sl-1500c and to my ears they sound great!

I went from a bog standard cartridge that came with my deck straight to the 2m blue and the difference is amazing, it's like having a new vinyl collection to listen to

I have a at-lp3 turntable. I purchased it for about $200. Does it make sense to upgrade to the Ortofon 2M Blue on this turntable and is it compatible?

I just upgraded my cartridge to the at-vm95e and I noticed the sound improvement. I am interested in the Ortofon 2M Blue. Your advice please.

Hey, you didn't shut up for 10 seconds even for us to hear the sound

I'm 62, with upper frequency loss in both ears, listening to the sound samples on my MacBook Pro, and I could hear an obvious difference. As one commenter noted, the red sounds flatter. That being said, would the blue accentuate vinyl imperfections/ noise? Thanks for the review.

Great review, but stop using Adobe, the record doesn't spin smoothly and the sound is breaking often. Watch the label on the record.

I’ve heard the red is just an OM in a fancy cart? The 2M is pretty ugly too, in fact one of the ugliest from Ortofon who normally have very cool designs.

You always speak and speak and speak... Where is the listening test? 🤔

I thought when I typed this... no one will have done a video on this. 22k views. Well done! I feel I've stumbled into a bigger group of music lovers than I imagined. I don't even have a LP yet. But... oooooo wee .. I want one.

Great video!

The blue may well be an improved sound v the red, but unfortunately the 'music' chosen for the sample on the website is so utterly dreadful that any comparison is rendered useless.

Hello good people of the Internet! I just got my first turntable ever. The Pro-Ject Carbon Evo. It has the Ortofon 2M Red. How often should i change the stylus? I have read that some people change every year. I guess the 2M Blue is a good upgrade if I need to exchange the 2M Red because of wear?

Whenever someone uses the word "subtle" in a comparison test, it's almost always not worth the upgrade expense. Unless you are a dog.

Imagine having a channel called sound matters and play loud crappy music between the talks. And not show the different in sound between 2 products it is reweing. I'll let u all judge that

Your arm lift is too high. The full Ortofon 2M range sound soulless, heartless, monochromatic..... A cheap Nagoaka MP110 will sound better

Should one ever use the little compact container of paste that comes with the cleaning kits to clean a stylus?

If I have the fluance rt81’s AT95E, could i just purchase the 2M Blue and set it up all nice and easily and get better sound quality?

I have the AT-VMN95E needle on my Audio Technica. How much of a difference will this Blue upgrade be? Would Bass and treble be better also?

Can i put 2m red on my Dual Cs 505-2 ?

I would skip the small 2M Blue upgrade and save up for a bigger step up to a 2M Bronze.
That one has a line contact tip (nude fineline), which greatly reduces inner groove distortion.
Oh btw, nice 1500C you've got there! 👍

I think a better use of funds is to skip the blue and go to the bronze (I know, you need an entirely different cartridge) or even better to start with an OM5E or OM10 and go up to a 30 stylus. The benefit to the OM series is all 5 styli fit the same body (5E, 10, 20, 30, and 40) providing a much more flexible and favorable upgrade path, whereas only the red and blue share a cartridge body with the gold and black requiring a completely different one. The difference between the OM and 2M series is negligible, if it's even discernable, and at a lesser cost it feels like a no-brainer to me.

Thanks - I could definitely hear the difference on my AKG Q701s. The Red sounded that much flatter while the Blue gave more detail in those higher frequencies. That said, I really had to listen for them and the overall difference was perhaps not worth the hike (near double here in Australia) on my modest gear.

You could hear a spider land on a pillow 100 yrs away.. you guys are so full of crap.. YOU CANNOT HEAR A DIFFERENCE

where do you get the record cleaner you have sitting on the upper-right edge of the vid?