Product Description
Enter the Exclusive world of Ortofon’s famous moving coil sound.
The Quintet Red is a perfect introduction to the world of Ortofon moving coils. It features an Elliptical diamond which is cut and polished to Ortofon’s standards.
This entry-level MC cartridge has very high price-to-performance ratio and is a perfect all-rounder for the newcomers to the world of moving coil cartridges.
MC Quintet Red is an all-purpose cartridge that delivers open, dynamic sound with a slight touch of warmth.
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.: 0.5 mV
- Channel balance at 1 kHz: >1.5 dB
- Channel separation at 1 kHz: 21 dB
- Channel separation at 15 kHz: >14 dB
- Frequency response: 20-20.000 Hz +/- 2.5 dB
- Tracking ability at 315Hz at recommended tracking force: 65 µm
- Compliance, dynamic, lateral: 15 µm/mN
- Stylus type: Elliptical
- Cantilever: Aluminium
- Stylus tip radius: r/R 8/18 µm
- Tracking force range: 2.1-2.5g
- Tracking force, recommended: 2.3g
- Tracking angle: 20°
- Internal impedance, DC resistance: 7 Ohm
- Recommended load resistance: >20 Ohm
- Cartridge weight: 9g
