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February 4, 2021The Ortofon Verismo MC cartridge
The Ortofon Exclusives series cartridges are widely acknowledged as being some of the best Moving Coil cartridges on the market, and we are continuously working on expanding the Exclusives range to offer music lovers even more opportunities to experience the supreme quality, precision, impact and dynamics that a highend reference cartridge conveys.
The MC Verismo has been developed based on our extensive knowledge of vibration properties, different shapes and materials characteristics, as well as competences in magnetism, mechanical design and technologies. This new state-of-the-art product, representative of numerous Ortofon design ideals, is truly exemplary of the highest degree of performance possible in contemporary analogue playback technology. The MC Verismo will undoubtedly provide sound which simply has to be experienced.
The story behind the name
The name Verismo is derived from the Italian “vero”, meaning “true” and is the Italian for “realism”. Versimo was a post-Romantic operatic genre, that had its origins in an Italian literary movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Verismo’s operatic tradition is associated with Italian composers such as Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Umberto Giordano, Francesco Cilea and Giacomo Puccini, who sought to portray the world with greater realism.
At Ortofon, our ultimate purpose is to continually raise the bar for true, faithful and accurate reproduction of the recorded sound. It is to provide the ultimate musical experience through a mixture of innovation and technical expertise, creating unique value for all listeners by allowing them to reveal music’s true inner emotions.
“…the Verismo revealed its basic sonic character to be more similar to that of the Anna Diamond than the Windfeld Ti, with an overall “faster” sound featuring sharper, more finely drawn high-frequency transients yet with a lush and generous midrange and a somewhat tighter, nimbler, better-controlled bottom end—knit together into a coherent sonic package.
…It (the MC Verismo – red.) sings in a timbrally neutral voice that doesn’t call attention to itself. On the finest true stereophonic recordings, the Verismo—like the Anna Diamond—deftly places well-focused, three-dimensional images in a natural-sounding space.”
Read the full review here: Stereophile
Technical data
- Output voltage at 1 kHz, 5cm/sec. 0.2 mV
- Channel balance at 1 kHz 0.5 dB
- Channel separation at 1 kHz 25 dB
- Channel separation at 15 kHz 20 dB
- Frequency response 20 Hz-20 kHz +2 dB/- 1 dB
- Tracking ability at 315 Hz at recommended tracking force 80 µm
- Compliance, dynamic, lateral 13 µm/mN
- Stylus type Special polished Nude Ortofon Replicant 100 on Diamond Cantilever
- Stylus tip radius r/R 5/100 µm
- Tracking force range 2.5-2.8 g (25-28 mN)
- Tracking force, recommended 2.6 g (26 mN)
- Tracking angle 23°
- Internal impedance, DC resistance 7 Ohm
- Recommended load impedance > 10 Ohm
- Coil wire material Aucurum, gold-plated, 6NX oxygen free copper
- Cartridge body material SLM Titanium
- Cartridge colour Silver
- Cartidge weight 9.5 g
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