Product Description
Ortofon's Quintet Black S is the best example of Quintet’s overall excellence
The Quintet Black S is graced with a Nude Shibata diamond, considered one of the best stylus profiles available, mounted on a high-performance Sapphire cantilever.
The Shibata’s slim, highly polished profile allows an exceedingly wide contact area to the walls of the groove and ensures detailed and pure reproduction throughout the spectrum, including even the most high frequency groove information.
Each of the five Quintet Series cartridges has its own individual sonic expression, and all five models together represent the ensemble of five classic variations:
- MC Quintet Mono is a true mono cartridge for playing mono microgroove vinyl records
- MC Quintet Red is an all-purpose cartridge that delivers open, dynamic sound with a slight touch of warmth
- MC Quintet Blue adds more dynamics and resolution, sounds more open and reproduces more details
- MC Quintet Bronze adds even more details and resolution but in a very evenhanded way that pays respect to all elements
- MC Quintet Black S is the best of everything, true to the groove with resolution and accurate insight into each recording
Specifications:
- Output voltage at 1000 Hz, 5cm/sec.: 0.3 mV
- Channel balance at 1 kHz: >1 dB
- Channel separation at 1 kHz: 23 dB
- Channel separation at 15 kHz: >15 dB
- Frequency response: 20-20.000 Hz +/- 1.5 dB
- Tracking ability at 315Hz at recommended tracking force: 80 µm
- Compliance, dynamic, lateral: 15 µm/mN
- Stylus type: Nude Shibata
- Cantilever: Sapphire
- Stylus tip radius: r/R 6/50 µm
- Tracking force range: 2.1-2.5g
- Tracking force, recommended: 2.3g
- Tracking angle: 20°
- Internal impedance, DC resistance: 5 Ohm
- Recommended load resistance: >20 Ohm
- Cartridge weight: 9g
