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The Ortofon MC Diamond MC Cartridge represents the highest echelon of moving coil cartridges available from Ortofon. The MC Diamond takes the original design but uses a Diamond cantilever combined with the Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond stylus. The combination produces a sound stage with sublime transparency, turn of speed and scale.

The titanium housing of the Ortofon MC Diamond is made using a pioneering technique called Selective Laser Melting (SLM). During the production process, fine particles of titanium are welded together to construct a single piece body that is devoid of unnecessary materials. As a result, the density of the body can be precisely controlled, allowing for extremely high internal damping. The final result provides freedom from resonance, which enables the MC diamond to suit a wide array of high-end tonearms.

The Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond stylus profile features a thin and light shape with an impressively long vertical contact surface, making it as close as possible to an original record cutting stylus as possible. Technical advances made during the development of the Ortofon flagship MC cartridges, ensures the MC Diamond sees the stylus mounted onto a diamond cantilever; a feature that redefines the boundaries of analogue reproduction, presenting greater inner detail, subtlety, and depth like never before.

The Ortofon Wide Range Damping System (WRD) has been re-engineered to include an enhanced rubber suspension, specially developed in-house for the new MC Diamond cartridge to ensure exceptional tracking and virtually eliminates distortion and resonance. This feature allows for optimal interaction between compliance and damping, improved stability and playback, and unparalleled sound quality. Created using a new rubber compound that utilises Multi Wall Carbon Nanotube technology (MWCNT), this new rubber suspension provides improved damping and enhances the overall performance of the MC Diamond cartridge. This Wide Range Damping (WRD) system offers more consistent movement with zero unwanted resonance, and thereby better stereo perspective and transient delineation.

The bottom section of the MC Diamond cartridge has been constructed from a special proprietary Thermo-Plastic Elastomer (TPE) material, which provides additional damping properties.

The Ortofon MC Diamond focuses on providing music in its entirety without compromise, offering an ideal balance of precision and musicality with fine attention to both micro and macro dynamics combined with fluid tonality and texture. It is also made to be relatively easy to partner with a wide-range of tonearms and turntables.

With an output impedance of 6Ω and a low-to-medium output voltage of 0.2mV, the MC Diamond is easy to partner with most phono pre-amps and step-up transformers – including Ortofon’s own ST-80 SE model. It’s also an ideal match for high-mass, high-precision tonearms with gimbal bearing systems.

Features

Ortofon’s greatest ever phono cartridge delivers music like you’ve never heard before
The ultimate example of Ortofon’s quest for true ‘Accuracy in Sound’
Overhead mounting cartridge for installing into a headshell
Moving Coil cartridge design
Luxury SLM Titanium body
Flagship nude Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond stylus

Specifications

Output Voltage (@ 1000HZ, 5CM/SEC.) – 0.2mV
Channel Balance (@ 1000HZ) – 0.5dB
Channel Separation (@ 1000HZ) – 25dB
Channel Separation (@ 15000HZ) – 20dB
Frequency Response +2 / -1DB – 20 – 20000Hz
Tracking Ability (@ 315HZ AT RECOMMENDED TRACKING FORCE) – 80μm
Compliance, Dynamic, Lateral – 11μm
Stylus Type – Nude Ortofon Replicant 100
Tracking Force Range – 2.5 – 2.8g
Recommended Tracking Force – 2.6g
Tracking Angle – 23°
Internal Impedance – 6Ω
Cantilever Material – Diamond
Recommended Load Impedance – >10Ω
Cartridge Weight – 17.5g

Weight 1 kg
Dimensions 150 × 150 × 150 mm
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