Ortofon's new flagship 'MC Century' announced

[audio.bill]

A newly developed Anniversary moving coil cartridge, the Ortofon MC Century coming soon! :exciting:

The MC Century represents the absolute top of Moving Coil cartridges. This state of the art product is truly exemplary of the highest degree of performance possible in contemporary analogue playback technology.
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The MC Century represents numerous Ortofon design elements and ideals:

• The housing and the body of the cartridge are made in Titanium with SLM technique.
• High performance iron-cobalt alloy is applied for some parts of the magnet system.
• The armature damping system provides complete elimination of unwanted resonance.
• Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond, thin and light, with an extraordinarily large contact surface, tracing accuracy unparalleled by any other needle in existence.
• The crystal structure and exceptional hardness of the new Diamond cantilever ensures the best possible interface between the stylus and the armature.
• The combination of Nude Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond on Diamond cantilever provides extremely responsive and transparent sound reproduction.

 

[Mike]

Cool. Better have a quiet Phonostage! .2mv


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[CPP]

Cool. Better have a quiet Phonostage! .2mv


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Mike can you elaborate on your comment, "better have a quiet phonostage". Is there a spec in the phonostage that will determine its "quiet" for a cartridge like noted above. Isn't that determined by the gain in the phonostage. Hey thanks in advance.

 

[Mike]

Mike can you elaborate on your comment, "better have a quiet phonostage". Is there a spec in the phonostage that will determine its "quiet" for a cartridge like noted above. Isn't that determined by the gain in the phonostage. Hey thanks in advance.

A .2mv output (as I mentioned above) will require high gain output from a Phonostage. Likely 69-73db, maybe higher depending on other factors. As you increase gain in the phonostage, you increase noise. In revealing systems, this is even more problematic.


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[Jerry Seh]

A .2mv output (as I mentioned above) will require high gain output from a Phonostage. Likely 69-73db, maybe higher depending on other factors. As you increase gain in the phonostage, you increase noise. In revealing systems, this is even more problematic.


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Hi Mike,

Any model/brand to recommend? Pass Labs XP27 do?

Thanks

 

[audio.bill]

Price is reported to be 10,000 Euros, US pricing not yet set but direct conversion is ~$12K.