Ortofon’s New Concorde Music Cartridge Range Lands in Munich

Ortofon’s Concorde Music guarantees vinylistas a brand new, handy cartridge choice for tonearms with detachable headshells.

Like a selected turntable model, Ortofon’s Concorde-shaped cartridges are actually thought-about the de facto customary within the DJ world. However, it’s important to do not forget that the design began as a hi-fi cartridge when this revolutionary cart was first unveiled in 1979 as a plug-and-play mannequin with a stylus and a decrease mass than the VMS cartridges Ortofon was already producing.

Thanks to its distinctive design, the Concorde has been in steady manufacturing for Ortofon ever since. It has modified subtly through the years however has retained its exceptional robustness and spectacular monitoring means.

Today, Concorde Music brings the Concorde physique form again to the hi-fi area, mirroring the 2M Series providing however with distinctive traits.  

Still sporting the plug-and-play set up on tonearms with SME-style headshell mountings as the unique, you might be provided Red, Blue, Bronze, Black and LVB 250 stylus choices to go well with completely different sound preferences, technical specs, and budgets.  

The new sequence utilises the identical cartridge physique and generator system, enabling straightforward stylus upgrades sooner or later. Meanwhile, a beneficiant 6mV output facilitates straightforward system matching.

ORTOFON CONCORDE MUSIC MODELS

Inside, silver-plated oxygen-free copper is chosen for the quad coil system, along with 4 Ortofon break up pole pins, delivering a transparent, highly effective 6mV output of dynamic, lifelike sound with distinctive readability and constancy to your linked phono stage.  

Each mannequin within the Concorde Music vary is recognized by its colored stylus, reflecting its place within the vary and the kind of sound you’ll be able to count on. Concorde Music Red, as an illustration, encompasses a high-quality elliptical diamond stylus profile, whereas Concorde Music Blue guarantees a extra refined efficiency because of its nude elliptical diamond.  

Boasting a nude fine-line diamond stylus profile, the Concorde Music Bronze boasts precision and element, and the Concorde Music Black’s high-end nude Shibata stylus profile ought to deliver you nearer to what the performer meant. 

Concorde Music LVB 250 is the sequence’ flagship, because of its mounting of a nude Shibata diamond on a high-quality boron cantilever. Ortofon says the result’s a sound efficiency like a costlier transferring coil design—true high-end excellence.

Each mannequin within the Concorde Music vary additionally makes use of a purpose-chosen rubber compound for its suspension system. Incidentally, Ortofon can be a number one rubber producer, enabling it to make the suspension methods in-house to exacting requirements. 

Ortofon’s Concorde Music vary is out there abroad now. Prices begin at £129 for the Red, adopted by the Blue, priced at £219, the Bronze, £365, and the Black, priced at £525. The LVB250, which is able to promote for £829, caps the sequence off. Australian pricing and availability has not but been confirmed.