Ortofon Mk2 Concorde Club Cartridge

Ortofon Concorde Club Cartridge - Professional DJ Cartridge (Mk2)

The Ortofon Concorde Club Cartridge, part of the new 2018 Mk2 series, is engineered with the best specifications and sound quality, making it an ideal choice for professional club DJs in any environment: studio, broadcast, or club. This cartridge features a specialized Elliptical stylus designed to extract intricate details from vinyl grooves, delivering an unparalleled listening experience. With its powerful 8 mV output voltage, it ensures cleaner sound reproduction and reduced susceptibility to feedback in live settings.

Key Features

• Best Specifications and Sound: Boasts the highest specifications and delivers the best sound among the Ortofon range, making it ideal for professional use.

• Special Elliptical Stylus: The Special-Elliptic stylus fits better in the groove, creating more contact area and extracting more intricate details compared to a spherical diamond.

• High Output Voltage (8 mV): Requires less gain from preamps, resulting in cleaner sound reproduction and lower susceptibility to feedback in loud, live environments.

• Optimized for Digitalization: Provides optimal quality and extracts every last detail from vinyl when transferring records to any digital storage media.

• Versatile Application: An ideal choice for Club DJs working in various environments including studio, broadcast, or club settings.

• Improved Design (Mk2): Features a redesigned body for improved handling and more accurate needle drops, a more robust stylus tip with a larger cutout, and a replaceable textured grip and handle for enhanced durability and usability.

• Tactile Feedback: Offers tactile feedback when mounting the stylus to the body, indicating a secure fit.

Technical Specifications

• Stylus Type: Special Elliptical r/R 13/25 μm

• Output Voltage at 1000 Hz, 5cm/sec.: 8 mV

• Frequency Range at -3 dB: 20 - 20,000 Hz

• Tracking Force Recommended: 3 g

• Tracking Force Range: 2 - 4 g

• Channel Balance at 1 kHz: 1 dB

• Channel Separation at 1 kHz: 25 dB

• Channel Separation at 15 kHz: 15 dB

• Tracking Ability at 315 Hz at recommended tracking force: 100 μm

• Compliance, dynamic lateral: 14 μm/mN

• Internal Impedance, DC resistance: 1000 Ohm

• Internal Inductance: 650 mH

• Recommended Load Resistance: 47 kOhm

• Recommended Load Capacitance: 200-600 pF

• Cartridge Weight: 18.5 g

• Replacement Stylus Unit: Stylus Club Mk2

• Color: Yellow (typically, based on common visuals for this model)

Suitable For

• Professional Club DJs.

• Studio recording and broadcast applications.

• Digitizing vinyl collections for optimal quality.

• Live performances where clean sound and feedback resistance are crucial.

What's in the box

• Ortofon Concorde Club Cartridge (single unit, with pre-installed stylus).