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Get an exceptional improvement in analogue reproduction quality!
Korf HS-A02 is twice as strong as the next best headshell on the market.

Buy today!

What's included:

– HS-A02 full ceramic headshell
– Pure silver litz wires
– Custom gold-plated contact pins and cartridge clips
– Brass fingerlift
– Screws in 3 lengths, knurled nuts, nylon washers

[sfh-price] plus shipping

To get your headshell to you quicker, we ship with a courier service every Wednesday. This is a lot faster than the regular post.

Please note that due to the nature of the ceramic material, slight discolorations and minor shape irregularities are possible. They make each headshell unique and do not constitute a defect.

What Our Customers Say

Phono playback systems are an essential design tool in our business and the enjoyment of music. To this end it is important that every element of your playback system is optimized.

An often overlooked piece in this chain is the headshell. I have tested and listened to multiple headshells and I can honestly say that the Korf HS-A02 is the finest device of its kind by a wide margin. You might be surprised that something so seemingly insignificant can change the performance of your tone arm dramatically. The design is based on scientific principles and painstaking research, no snake oil here.
Korf's research into resonance and vibration has borne fruit and has produced something special.

To sum it up, if you are serious about music reproduction you owe it to yourself to try the HS-A02... put in a few words, elegance, simplicity and purity.

Jam Somasundram

Quadratic Audio, USA

I have a lot of high end headshells and the Korf ceramic headshell is easily one of my most favorite headshells. I bought 4 of them for myself and another 4-6 more for friends. I have about 15 cartridges and mount some of my finest ones on the Korf ceramic headshell. I highly recommend this headshell to those who are audio enthusiasts and want nothing short of the best.

Tim Connor

KitsuneHiFi, USA

As a long time audiophile I have often wondered about the advantages of different headshells. I knew through experience that the quality of the material and design had an effect on sound quality. I recently purchased the new Technics SL1210GAE and the stock headshell is ok but not great. I also used an Ortofon carbon fiber headshell and it made a nice difference. So I started doing research on what else is available, came across a blog by Alex and followed his developments and tests. I felt his approach to reduce resonance at the most important place — where cartridge attaches to its support — could and should improve the sound.

What I found with his ceramic design was that the headshell just gets out of the way of of the micro movements of the stylus and cantilever allowing for all or music retrieval to be revealed. It really is like removing a layer of cloth over the sound with clearer highs and dynamic bass. The Korf headshell is a component on its own and highly recommended.

Jerry Snead

Maryland, USA

Why are Korf Headshells Better?

The World's Only Fully Ceramic Headshell

It's a single piece of alumina ceramic:

Light and incredibly strong
As rigid as steel at less than half the weight
The headshell and the connector are one seamless casting
No internal breaks or lesser materials
Unique supporting rib minimizes resonances

Advanced materials and construction make the headshell "disappear" sonically. You will hear what your cartridge and tonearm are really capable of!

Based on a Large Scale Study

We studied dozens of headshells to see what separates the best from the rest:

Quality headshells have high bending resistance. They are very stiff in bending and in torsion, showing low deflection
Quality headshells have low energy storage. They "ring" only for a short time, and have only one or two clearly defined own frequencies

We build our headshell 2-3 times stronger than the next best headshell we measured. While keeping the energy storage as low as the best headshells out there.

No Detail is Ever Insignificant

Pure silver litz wiring
Custom gold-plated contact pins
Double locking pin for a more rigid connection to the tonearm. The clamping load is spread over the entire diameter of the barrel
Beautiful custom-made brass fingerlift, screws and knurled nuts are included
Fully compatible. Fits all the tonearms that accept the standard "SME/Ortofon/JIS" type straight headshells
Supplied in sturdy display packaging

HS-A02 Specifications

Fits all the tonearms that accept the standard "SME/Ortofon/JIS" type straight headshells. If you are worried about the headshell mass and its impact on tracking, please use our Tonearm/Cartridge Matching Calculator. Most arm/cartridge combinations work fine with HS-A02.

SME/Ortofon/JIS type turntable headshell
Single seamless casting, material: Alumina Ceramic
Pure silver Litz connecting wires
Custom gold-plated contact pins
Custom non-magnetic brass mounting hardware
Double locating pin for extremely secure connection
Weight 13 gram, including wires and fingerlift

Note: there are some cartridges that need very light or highly resonant headshells to sound good. Such pickup cartridges might not benefit from using the HS-A02 headshell. To the best of our knowledge, these include JICO Seto Hori moving coil cartridge and all Grado MI cartridges

Terms and Conditions

Shipping
We will ship your purchase worldwide from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Shipping and handling is at cost.

If you are outside the EU, we cannot promise that you will or will not have to pay your country's import taxes and duties.
Returns
If you aren't satisfied with your purchase for any reason whatsoever we will gladly take it back within 40 days from the date of delivery.

There is no charge for restocking If you return all items in the original packaging. If you are in the EU we will cover the return shipment costs.
1 Year Warranty
We will replace anything you bought from us free of charge if it fails due to manufacturing defects within 1 year from the date of delivery.

Safe and Secure
We will keep your data as secure as we can and will not do anything with it without first getting a permission from you. If you don't want us to store your data any more (for example, your email address), just let us know and we will delete it straight away.

We would never sell your details to any marketer. Period, no exceptions.
Quality Engineering
We only offer things that we have designed ourselves, and that are manufactured to our specifications under our control.

We do not re-badge someone else's products to sell them as our own.
Real People, Real Opinion
All product endorsements you see on our site and in our advertising are from real people who enjoy their Korf Audio products.

Korf Audio would not exist without free exchange of sincere opinion on the internet. We do not post any promotional content pretending to be a personal opinion on any public forum.

Photos: Ákos Burg, www.akosburg.com, Korf Audio