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

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.

I enjoy the Ortofon cartridges a fair bit. Have an A90 on a Denon DP75 in VPI plinth and Acos GST 801 arm. There is a Cadenza Blue on a Technics SP10 MKII in obsidian plinth and EPA 250 arm. Have no problems with either cartridge into a Liberty Audio B2B-1 phono stage. Truth is the Cadenza Blue amazes me on a daily basis.

With that said i still adore my ZYX 4D.

Neo - you have a excellent Phono stage 😄🎶👍 - and no with the right amplifier any low output MC will shine.

Your B2B-1 is a boil down from this one
http://pbnaudio.com/audio-components/audio-preamps/olympia-pi-pxi

I fully agree the ZYX Cartridges are very special - excellent sound - even though the plastic body display a different perspective 

Good Listening 

Peter 

Dear friends:  As in deep as I'm  with Ortofon I did not know that they started with FILM SOUND. Ortofon is a true ICON in the Audio Industry and perhaps no one knows so many about cartridge design or at least are second to none: Ortofon pedigree is astonishing/outstanding and we can read why and obviously the ones with Ortofon first hand audio experiences at their home:

https://www.ortofon.com/about/development  

this is the very first time ( and the best time to do it. ) that ORTOFON use diamond cantilevers in this Anniversary LOMC design. The cartridge must be something, at least, listening it in a top audio system.

https://www.ortofon.com/about/timeline


Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

I wonder if the Concorde Century will beat ortofon,s MMBlack, around the same price.