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Ortofon MC Diamond Hi-Fi Cartridge
£7,349.00 £6,124.17
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Ortofon MC Diamond
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12 Months
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One of the most stand-out features of the MC Diamond is its unprecedented level of accuracy in sound. This is achieved through the use of a Diamond cantilever and Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond stylus, providing unrivalled transparency, speed, and responsiveness in information retrieval. This means that you will experience your music like never before, with a level of detail and nuance that will truly impress.
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Ortofon MC Diamond Hi-Fi Cartridge
One of the most stand-out features of the MC Diamond is its unprecedented level of accuracy in sound. This is achieved through the use of a Diamond cantilever and Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond stylus, providing unrivalled transparency, speed, and responsiveness in information retrieval. This means that you will experience your music like never before, with a level of detail and nuance that will truly impress.
In addition to its superior sound quality, the MC Diamond is also built with the highest quality materials. The luxury SLM Titanium body not only looks sleek and stylish, but also offers exceptional internal damping. This is thanks to Ortofon's pioneering SLM technique, where fine particles of Titanium are welded together to create a single piece body, free from unnecessary material. The result is a cartridge that is perfectly suited for high-end tonearms and delivers absolute freedom from resonance.
Features
- Ortofon's greatest ever phono cartridge delivers music like you've never heard before
- The ultimate example of Ortofon's quest for true 'Accuracy in Sound'
- Overhead mounting cartridge for installing into a headshell
- Moving Coil cartridge design
- Luxury SLM Titanium body
- Flagship nude Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond stylus
- Diamond cantilever ensures unmatched high-end sound
What Ortofon say
The MC Diamond model represents the highest echelon of moving coil cartridges. As its name suggests, the MC Diamond takes the original design but uses a Diamond cantilever that, in combination with the Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond stylus, offers unrivalled transparency, speed and responsiveness in its information retrieval.
Titanium Structure
The housing of the MC Diamond is made using Ortofon’s pioneering SLM technique. In production, fine particles of Titanium are welded together, layer-by-layer, to construct a single piece body devoid of unnecessary material. Using this technique, the density of the body can be precisely controlled, allowing for extremely high internal damping. The final result provides absolute freedom from resonance, allowing the MC diamond to perfectly suit a wide array of high-end tonearms.
The Finest Technologies and Material Choices
Like previous Ortofon flagships, the MC Diamond makes use of the company’s best stylus profile. The specially polished Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond stylus profile boasts a thin and light shape, with an impressively long vertical contact surface making it as close as possible to an original record cutting stylus as possible. However, thanks to the technical advances made in developing the range of Ortofon flagship MC cartridges, the MC Diamond sees the stylus mounted onto a diamond cantilever; a feature that redefines the boundaries of analogue reproduction, presenting greater inner detail, subtlety, and depth like never before.
For the new MC Diamond cartridge, the Ortofon Wide Range Damping System (WRD) has been re-engineered to include an enhanced rubber suspension, specially developed in-house to ensure exceptional tracking and virtually eliminates distortion and resonance. This feature allows for optimal interaction between compliance and damping, improved stability and playback, and unparalleled sound quality. Created using a new rubber compound that utilises Multi Wall Carbon Nanotube technology (MWCNT), this new rubber suspension provides improved damping and enhances the overall performance of the MC Diamond cartridge. This Wide Range Damping (WRD) system offers more consistent movement with zero unwanted resonance, and thereby better stereo perspective and transient delineation.
The Best of the Best
The bottom section of the cartridge has been constructed from a special proprietary Thermo-Plastic Elastomer (TPE) material, which provides additional damping properties.
The MC Diamond focuses on providing music in its entirety without compromise, offering an ideal balance of precision and musicality with fine attention to both micro and macro dynamics combined with fluid tonality and texture. It is also made to be relatively easy to partner with a wide-range of tonearms and turntables.
With an output impedance of 6Ω and a low-to-medium output voltage of 0.2mV, the MC Diamond is easy to partner with most phono pre-amps and step-up transformers – including Ortofon’s own ST-80 SE model. It’s also an ideal match for high-mass, high-precision tonearms with gimbal bearing systems.
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"With the MC Diamond, Ortofon has advanced the cartridge game once more." Product Review - Hi-Fi News - November 2022 |
"The best of the best, Ortofon Exclusive Series cartridges boast the most premium components and materials of any Ortofon model. Sparing no expense in order to achieve the utmost quality in sound - these phono cartridges utilise processes such as Selective Laser Melting and principles like Field Stabilising Elements, to create meticulously crafted devices that perform to the highest standard. If you own a high end deck and are looking for accurate sound reproduction, there are no better products than these!"
Nick Fuller - Henley Audio Sales Director
Specification
- Output Voltage (@ 1000Hz, 5cm/sec.): 0.2 mV
- Channel Balance (@ 1000Hz): 0.5 dB
- Channel Separation (@ 1000Hz): 25 dB
- Channel Separation (@ 15000Hz): 20 dB
- Frequency Response ±2dB: 20 - 20000 Hz
- Tracking Ability (@ 315Hz at Recommended Tracking Force): 80 μm
- Compliance, Dynamic, Lateral: 11 μm
- Stylus Type: Nude Ortofon Replicant 100
- Tracking Force Range: 2.5 - 2.8 g
- Recommended Tracking Force: 2.6 g
- Tracking Angle: 23 °
- Internal Impedance: 6 Ω
- Cantilever Material: Diamond
- Recommended Load Impedance: > 10 Ω
- Cartridge Weight: 17.5 g
About Ortofon
Ortofon is one of the world leader's in the development and manufacturing of turntable cartridges. The wealth of knowledge and expertise at Ortofon has been accumulating since 1918 with their first moving coil cartridge manufactured in 1948.
Today, Ortofon offers a wide range of cartridges for both DJ's and Hi-Fi audiophiles. Their offering includes moving magnets, moving coils, plug-and-play headshells, mono cartridges and 78RPM cartridges.
Throughout their range of cartridges, Ortofon maintains a set profile with each cartridge profile containing an individual sonic expression. All of Ortofon's range of cartridges includes a Red, Blue, Bronze and Black model.
First, in the range, are the Red cartridges which deliver open, dynamic sound with a slight touch of warmth. Next, the Blue Cartridges offer greater dynamic soundstages with improved detail and resolution. Following on, the Bronze cartridges improve the details in a way that pays respects to all elements of the track. Lastly, the Black cartridges are the best at everything. They are true to the groove with resolution and accurate insight into each recording.
Ortofon have made their cartridges suitable for the majority of turntables on the market at the moment. With a wide range of available models, there is an Ortofon cartridge to suit everyone.
Specification
- Output Voltage (@ 1000Hz, 5cm/sec.): 0.2 mV
- Channel Balance (@ 1000Hz): 0.5 dB
- Channel Separation (@ 1000Hz): 25 dB
- Channel Separation (@ 15000Hz): 20 dB
- Frequency Response ±2dB: 20 - 20000 Hz
- Tracking Ability (@ 315Hz at Recommended Tracking Force): 80 μm
- Compliance, Dynamic, Lateral: 11 μm
- Stylus Type: Nude Ortofon Replicant 100
- Tracking Force Range: 2.5 - 2.8 g
- Recommended Tracking Force: 2.6 g
- Tracking Angle: 23 °
- Internal Impedance: 6 Ω
- Cantilever Material: Diamond
- Recommended Load Impedance: > 10 Ω
- Cartridge Weight: 17.5 g
UK Delivery
1. We use Royal Mail 1st Class Services as a Standard Postage Option
Orders received before 4.30pm Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays) are usually dispatched the same day by FIRST CLASS post (unless premium postal or timed courier services are selected), subject to stock availability. Over 98% of our orders are usually delivered the next working day including Saturdays.
Standard delivery is usually within 2-3 working days, although 98% of all orders are delivered the next working day including Saturdays . In extreme cases, such as delivery to the Highlands and Islands, this may take 3 days.
All items are fully insured and come with an invoice from Futureshop.co.uk. We use the Royal Mail for delivery of small packages and DPD or Interlink Express for items that weigh over 2KG. Items over 2KG are fully insured and will usually be delivered within 48 hours of placing your order Monday to Friday subject to stock availability. For International orders, we use FedEx Services where customers have selected this option.
Please note, special orders for non-standard cable lengths or custom-made cables may be subject to longer delivery time-scales. This may vary from manufacturer to manufacturer.
We offer 'Free UK delivery on orders over £99' subject to the following terms & conditions:
- Applies only to orders with £99 or more of items (including VAT at the UK rate), at FutureShop.co.uk
- Free Delivery on orders over £99 utilises Royal Mail First Class postal service for items weighing under 2KG. For items weighing over 2KG, we use DPD next working day services which deliver from 9.00am to 6pm within mainland UK (excludes Royal Mail Special Delivery Services and timed next day delivery services by UK Mail).
- Applies only to deliveries to addresses within mainland UK and Northern Ireland addresses. Applies only to orders that are to be delivered to a single Mainland UK delivery address.
- You will not be eligible for free delivery on your order if any items are cancelled or returned for a refund, bringing the total order amount below £99. Where items are returned, the refund due will be the cost of the item less any postage costs.
- We reserve the right to change or discontinue 'Free delivery on orders over £99 promotion at any time.
- FREE DELIVERY FOR ORDERS OVER £99 OFFER DOES NOT APPLY TO TRADE CUSTOMERS.
Free Delivery on orders over £99 utilises Royal Mail First Class postal service for items weighing under 2KG. For items weighing over 2KG, we use DPD or Interlink Express next working day services which deliver from 9.00am to 6pm within mainland UK.
Free Delivery for orders over £99 excludes Royal Mail Special Delivery Services and timed next day delivery services by DPD or Interlink Express.
2. Special Delivery UK - Guaranteed Next Working Day
We have 99.9% of the UK covered With Royal Mail Next Day Special Delivery. We guarantee delivery to most UK addresses by 1pm the next working day. This includes Northern Ireland, Jersey and Guernsey. Some places take longer to deliver to but we still guarantee delivery within three working days by 5.30 PM.
For the Next Day Special Delivery service, orders must be received by futureshop.co.uk by 4.30pm weekdays. Orders after the 4.30pm deadline cannot be guaranteed for same day dispatch.
Please note, Royal Mail Special Delivery for next working day may not be possible where non-standard cable lengths are ordered. If this is the case, the item will be shipped via The Royal Mail Special Delivery service as soon as the cable is custom made.
For orders weighing over 2KG, we reserve the right to ship items using Next Day Pre-Noon Courier Services where Royal Mail Special Delivery option has been selected.
3. Channel Islands & Northern Ireland
We accept orders from all Channel Islands including Alderney, Jersey, Guernsey and Sark. Unless you select a premium service, Items weighing under 2KG are delivered using our standard UK delivery option above. For items weighing over 2KG, a surcharge may be applied for all deliveries to the Channel Islands as well as Northern Ireland.
European Countries
Deliveries to EU member states are subject to 20% VAT. We offer the following shipping services:
- Royal Mail First Class International Untracked Airmail Services - Items are usually delivered within 10 working days.
- Royal Mail First Class International Tracked Airmail Services - Items are usually delivered within 3 to 7 working days.
- DHL Express International - Items are usually delivered within 24 to 48 hours. DHL orders must be received by 3:30pm for next day service to most destinations in Europe
- Federal Express International Priority - Items are usually delivered within 24 to 48 hours. FedEx orders must be received by 3.00pm for next day service to most destinations in Europe
- Federal Express International Economy - Item are usually delivered within 48 to 72 hours
Worldwide - Excluding UK & Europe
Deliveries outside of the EU are not subject to 20% VAT and so the 20% tax on items is automatically deducted when you login or register.
We offer the following shipping services:
- Royal Mail First Class International Untracked Airmail Services - Items are usually delivered within 15 working days.
- Royal Mail First Class International Tracked Airmail - Items are usually delivered within 10-15 working days.
- DHL Express International - Items are usually delivered within 48 hours. DHL orders must be received by 3:30pm in order to ship items the same day, subject to stock availability.
- Federal Express International Priority - Items are usually delivered within 48 hours. FedEx orders must be received by 3.00pm in order to ship items the same day, subject to stock availability.
Where the actual weight of the package significantly exceeds the shipping cost charged on orders, we may write to you for an additional shipping charge. For larger orders, items may be shipped in multiple packets.
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