Product Overview
The Concorde ELITE represents a high-end Moving Magnet cartridge, built upon the heritage of the Ortofon Concorde MkII Series. Through a series of enhancements to various components, the ELITE attains an unprecedented level of sound quality, setting it apart from conventional DJ-classified cartridges.
Ortofon Features:
- Special-Molded Stylus Body with Real Gold Plating: The cartridge boasts a new stylus body design with real gold plating, adding a touch of luxury to the renowned Concorde aesthetic.
- Nude Elliptical Diamond: The stylus incorporates a Nude Elliptical diamond, typically found in HiFi cartridges, mounted on a rigid Aluminum cantilever.
- Powerful and Detailed Sound: The Nude Elliptical diamond delivers a potent and highly detailed sound, providing a remarkable level of live performance.
- Reduced Moving Mass: The addition of the Nude Elliptical diamond results in a smaller moving mass, ensuring improved and detailed sound quality.
- Accurate Groove Tracking: The slim profile of the Nude Elliptical diamond enables precise tracking of groove oscillations, extracting intricate details and faithfully reproducing even the highest frequency information.
Ortofon Specifications:
- Output voltage at 1000 Hz, 5cm/sec. - 8,5 mV
- Channel balance at 1 kHz - 1 dB
- Channel separation at 1 kHz - 25 dB
- Channel separation at 15 kHz - 15 dB
- Tracking ability at 315Hz at recommended tracking force - 100 μm
- Compliance, dynamic lateral - 13 μm/mN
- Stylus type - Nude Elliptical
- Stylus tip radius - r/R 8/18 μm
- Tracking force range 2.0-4.0 g
- Tracking force recommended - 3.0 g
- Tracking angle - 20°
- Internal impedance, DC resistance - 1.2 kOhm
- Internal inductance - 800 mH
- Recommended load resistance - 47 kOhm
- Recommended load capacitance - 150-400 pF
- Cartridge weight excluding screws - 18.5 g
- Cartridge colour (body/stylus) - Black/Gold
- Replacement stylus unit - ELITE
