Ortofon Quintet Black Moving Coil Cartridge

Ortofon Quintet Black Moving Coil Cartridge

Name: Ortofon Quintet Black Moving Coil Cartridge
Brand: Ortofon
Price: 1799.00 NZD
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The best example of Quintet’s overall excellence

The Quintet Black S is graced with a Nude Shibata diamond, considered one of the best stylus profiles available, mounted on a high-performance Sapphire cantilever.

The Shibata’s slim, highly polished profile allows an exceedingly wide contact area to the walls of the groove and ensures detailed and pure reproduction throughout the spectrum, including even the most high frequency groove information.

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Specifications

• Output voltageat 1000 Hz, 5cm/sec: 0.3 mV
• Channel balanceat 1 kHz: < 1.0 dB
• Channel separationat 1 kHz: > 23 dB
• Channel separationat 15 kHz: > 15 dB
• Frequency rangeat -3dB: 20 - 25,000 Hz
• Frequency response:20-20,000 Hz, +/- 1.5 dB
• Tracking abilityat 315Hz: 80 µm
• Compliance,dynamic, lateral: 15 µm/mN
• Stylus type: Nude Shibata on Sapphire cantilever
• Stylus tip radius: r/R 6/50 µm
• Tracking force range: 2.1-2.5 g (21-25 mN)
• Tracking force, recommended: 2.3 g (23 mN)
• Tracking angle: 20°
• Internal impedance, DC resistance: 5 Ohm
• Recommended load impedance: > 20 Ohm
• Cartridge body material: ABS/Aluminium
• Coil wire material: Aucurum
• Cartridge colour: Black
• Cartridge weight: 9 g

Perhaps the greatest tribute I can pay the Quintet Black is that I haven’t felt the urge to quickly return to one of my pricey reference cartridges.

The Absolute Sound

The new Sapphire cantilever solution

Multiple studies show that demand for strategic natural resources continues to increase. New technologies use ever-increasing amounts of rare and strategic resources. Understandable that this increasing demand may complicate future supply.
Over the decades, there has been an increase in the use of Boron. One of Boron's benefits for our modern technology is its use in neodymium magnets, which are an alloy of neodymium, iron and boron. Boron has also been applied in manufacturing of phono cartridges: Boron cantilevers are strong, stiff, light and 100% inert. From all possible options Boron cantilever is the best, but unfortunately extremely difficult to obtain.
The new MC Quintet Black S model is graced with Shibata stylus on the Sapphire cantilever. Sapphire is one of the best cantilever options that provides an excellent mechanical pulse transfer from the stylus to the coil system.
The Quintet Black S, like its predecessor Quintet Black, produces detailed and pure reproduction though-out the spectrum, volume and soundstage.

Ease of use

Top-mounting of the Quintet cartridges is easy and secure using the screws supplied. The aluminuim frame has threaded mounting holes and is fitted easily with the 5mm or 7mm screws depending on the thickness of the headshell.
The Quintet series’ right angles, straight lines, stylus visibility and ample distance between the record surface and the cartridge’s bottom will make it easy to mount and align the cartridge and tonearm correctly. The Quintet Series gives excellent results with most common tonearms.

The Quintet Story

Nothing demonstrates Ortofon's long-standing resilience more than its commitment to the refinement of analogue sound quality and its continued development of new cartridge models. Since 1948 Ortofon has introduced about 100 different Moving Coil models. We believe the cartridges in this new series are more than worthy successors to the long line of models that has made Ortofon the global leader in the manufacture and supply of phono cartridges.

Free turntable setup

We carefully set up every turntable and cartridge we sell. So if you're new to turntables or have decades of experience, you know you'll be getting the most enjoyment from your system. You can be safe in the knowledge that you can take your turntable home, plug it straight in and start enjoying good music without any worry of something being setup incorrectly.

Perhaps the greatest tribute I can pay the Quintet Black is that I haven’t felt the urge to quickly return to one of my pricey reference cartridges. I don’t need to tell you that for this analog junkie, that’s really saying something.

If you have a good tonearm with the adjustability and skill to really dial it in, you will love the Black. And the good news is, with its large body that is all square, setup is much easier than others.