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

@lewm When it comes to analog, a phono preamplifier is the single most difficult component to engineer and build. MP1 (pushing $20,000!!!) uses 10 tubes to get 66dB of MC gain and another 6 tubes for line level. I have not heard it, but I doubt it would be considered low noise with the cartridges in question.

Yes, some of us own or can build a state of the art phono preamp, but the rest 99.99% of audiophiles buying these very low output cartridges are listening to garbage sound. Just because something makes noise and plays loud enough, doesn’t mean that it’s any good.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/liberty-audio-b2b-1-phono-preamplifier

This little gem does LOMC easy 

🎶👍

and yes yes I make them  

good Listening 

Peter 

@pbnaudio What are the fets used in that unit?

005  (are you in her majesty's secret service :-) )

Toshiba 2SK170/2SJ74 - I still have some left - hoping that Linear Systems will get their act together and figure out how to make these before I run out :-)

Good Listening

Peter

Dear @lewm : I'm totally sure that this Ortofon 100th anniversary is a must to have or at least listen it in a top audio system we truly know its quality level performance.

The design of this cartridge, as is its price, is a total departure from what Ortofon showed through all those years where they never try to use " sophisticated materials or mystic build histories or marketing hipes " to design and to market and fix the item prices.

Ortofon is a total/100% of knowledge and skills at every single " sigth " surrounded its designs for it can works always in favor of MUSIC.

The Windfeld or the A90/95 are extraordynary performers but its price is extremely reasonably against the top models with other manufacturers as can be Koetsu or Clearaudio or even Lyra or Air Tigth.

With this Ortofon cartridge they use diamond to build the cantilever for the very first time and I'm sure that the replicant 100 stylus for this cartridge is expressely hand selected.

You have at least two LOMC cartridges that came from Ortofon: the 7500 and the 2000 where you can attest what I'm saying here. No marketing hipes, only true/real design and excecution design to quality levels no one can even it.

Ortofon pedigree talks for them.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.