TIME'S CELEBRATION: ORTOFON FIRST CENTURY ANNIVERSARY ! ! ! ! !

I'm using an Ortofon Winfield with an Ayre pre.......plenty of output....dead silence when the arm is lifted...even with my ear against the speaker.

Dear @stringreen : The Windfeld is something to own and its output is 0.3mv. As I said balls and drive are there, you only have to have the rigth system to ask for.

I can think that the new Windfeld Ti with’s lower 0.2mv output is even a better quality performer than the great one you own.

Maybe, time of an up-date? or maybe the 100th anniversary !

Btw, I ask @mikelavigne to chime on the LOMC 100th anniversary because when the Anna began and seen the " ligth " for the very firt time was Mike one of the first audiophiles in the audio world to own/listen it before the cartridges were at the Ortofon distributors. Maybe this time too.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

Invictus, On VA, one of the inmates posted that with his SME V, the new Ortofon Century will give a resonant frequency of about 10Hz, smack in the middle of the desired range.  So maybe you ought to give it a thought for use with your SME V.  For me, with MC cartridges, it almost seems that my rating would be inversely proportional to voltage output, which is to say the lower the signal voltage output, the better the cartridge sounds in comparison to other models from the same maker or even across brands. And you don't necessarily need an all solid state phono stage to achieve low noise and high gain.

@lewm I will be trying the Concorde Century. But MC Century at $12K is beyond stupid. I can get an SME Model 20 for that price. Or a number of other awesome pieces of audio gear.

BTW, resonance would be at 11Hz. There are tons of other cartridges that would work just as well and better. And I'm not convinced that it's all that important.

I can think of no tube phono stages that will work well with a cartridge that has between 0.125 and 0.2 Mv of output. The age old argument has been that the less wire the less loss. IMHO, that is a bogus argument. What is lost by the necessity to have either an SUT or a “stressed” ss phono preamp, easily outweighs any gains in the minimization of the wiring. YMMV.