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

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.

Ever notice that no one ever talks about if it sounds like real music.  These threads go on and on about null points, these tone arms, blows the other stuff away, distortion, black background, holographic, sound stage, crisp high, tight bass, etc etc etc..

You have people who talk in absolutes without even listening to the product.  OK I have endured the nonsense that digital is neutral,  null points make a huge difference, SUT's are crap, and now you can not make a great tube phono stage.

Now I am not hear to tell you what you like.  For me is it simple, I want it to sound like real music.  When is the last time you went to a concert, club, etc and listened for a black background, soundstage, or tight bass.  When have you heard when the needle hits the 2 null points.  If holographic is your thing some Maggie's might be in the picture.

Sorry to disrupt the status quo of this forum.  Will shut up now, and go listen to my shitty dht tube gear, and my 14 inch oil dampen wood, UNIPIVOT tonearm. 

@pbnaudio Last batch of LSK389 I ordered directly from Linear Systems, more than half went straight to garbage. Discrete low noise jfet days are over. 

Those Toshibas are awesome, should be a very low noise phono preamplifier :)

It's a pity that Ortofon celebrate 100 years and all the cartridges celebrated and released  are financially unavailable to the common man. I'll blow out a candle.