Turntable Cartridges

The Quintet Black S is graced with a Nude Shibata diamond considered one of the best stylus profiles available mounted on a high-performance Boron cantilever. The MC Quintet Series is congruent with Ortofons unrelenting commitment to providing the most precise and accurate reproduction possible without coloration. 

Ethos is a truly high-end cartridge featuring a vital-shank, nude-diamond stylus. This polyhedral, line-contact profile was chosen because it has a very low tip-mass and a large contact area whilst being very narrow from front to back; even enabling the undistorted retrieval of ultrasonic frequencies in a recording. In order to properly process this information, at the heart of the Ethos cartridge is Goldring's hand-built GOL-1 moving-coil generator. Featuring a hand-wound cross-shaped, soft-iron armature and married to a low resonance aircraft aluminium chassis, each one is precision tuned by our expert craftsmen to achieve our best ever level of performance. The result is that one becomes …

The Ortofon Cadenza Red features a nude fine line stylus with a cylindrical aluminium cantilever. The stylus tip radius is r/R 8/40 µm. The coils are made from 6NX (99.9999 %) pure silver wire. An improved winding process on the armature allows a better channel balance.

An update of the AT-ART7 the AT-ART9XA non-magnetic core MC cartridge features a Shibata stylus on a 0.28 mm diameter solid boron cantilever. The "ART" in the model number stands for Audio-Technica Reference Transducer a designation Audio Technica give only to their flagship phono cartridges. Compared with the magnetic core used in most MC cartridges non-magnetic core cartridges are free from magnetic distortion allowing for natural timbre and a precise sound field. Although conventional non-magnetic cores struggle with output voltage the AT-ART9XA features a newly designed coil armature with an improved output voltage of 0.2 mV (1 kHz 5 cm/sec). The dual moving coils (fashioned from high-performance …

Featuring a special line contact stylus on a 0.28 mm diameter solid boron cantilever the AT-ART9XI replaces the AT-ART9 as Audio-Technicas flagship magnetic core MC cartridge. The "ART" in the model number stands for Audio-Technica Reference Transducer a designation that they give only to their flagship phono cartridges. The specially designed magnetic circuit boasts an output voltage of 0.5 mV (1 kHz 5 cm/sec) making the cartridge easy to use and capable of reproducing even the most delicate expressions while also ensuring dynamic playback. The dual moving coils (fashioned from high-performance PCOCC wire) are aligned in an inverted V shape to provide high separation and wide response for clear …

The soundstage of the Cadenza Blue from Ortofon  is wide open and grandiose as soon as you take it out of the box. The Cadenza Blue employs a Nude FG 70 stylus with a very thin ruby cantilever and the improved winding process of the armature ensures better channel balance than any model that came before it.