Description
Ortofon 2M Black Pre-Mounted on SH-4 Headshell
With the Ortofon 2M Black Pre-Mounted on SH-4 Headshell music is just the way the artist wanted you to.
The 2M Black is mounted on their classic SH-4 headshell. The sturdy, slim-designed SH-4 headshell offers strength and delicacy, complemented by an ergonomic, easy-to-lift finger grip. Simplify your setup while embracing quality.
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Reviews
The Audio Beat
“… The 2M line has become a de facto reference for moving-magnet cartridges … It is due to both the sound quality of the various 2M models as well as the wide price range across the line … The differences among the four stereo 2M models occur in three primary areas: stylus profile, body material, and engine …“
Marc Mickelson / The Audio Beat
Hi-Fi Choice
“… Everything about the 2M Black is well thought out …
… The 2M Black sounds excellent across a wide range of program material, with a distinctively ‘clean’ Ortofon sound that has tremendous detail resolving capability …
… It goes to work on the recorded acoustic, setting it up tidily with lots of atmosphere, stretching right back to the edges of the concert hall …
… It is very good at expressing the emotion in the lead vocal and capturing the dynamic nuances in the track overall …“
Group test / Hi-Fi Choice
Hi-Fi News Yearbook 2011
“… When set-up, the Ortofon 2M Black was immediately engaging, sounding powerful and vivid …
… it was natural recordings of full orchestra that confirmed that the 2M Black is a stellar moving-magnet cartridge …
… The 2M Black delivers a holographic imagery worthy of the most sophisticated vinyl replay systems.“
TNT Audio
“… the Ortofon’s strengths in detail, imaging, tracking, and neutrality make for a compelling case. If you’re looking for a cartridge in this price range, be it MM or MC, it should definitely be on your shortlist.“
Graeme Budd / TNT Audio
Features
Split pole pin technology – Features
The 2M Black features a high-performance motor system incorporating quad coils with Ortofon’s very own invention: split pole pins upgraded with a silver-plated copper wire.
The 2M is mounted on a classic Ortofon SH-4 headsheel and is for customers who wish direct and easy mounting and replacement on their S-shaped tonearm.
Feeling the presence of the artist – Accuracy level
With the 2M Black, you will not only hear the music, but you will sense the presence of the artist in the room while listening to your favorite records.
Shibata diamond – Stylus
The 2M Black is graced with a Shibata diamond that gives it contact with the groove like nothing else. The slim, highly polished profile allows an exceedingly wide contact area to the groove walls and ensures notably detailed reproduction throughout the spectrum, including even the most high frequency groove information.
For every phase of your musical expedition – Exploring the lineup
The 2M series is built on the philosophy of accuracy in sound. All their experience, know-how, technology, and innovation has gone into making it the series that lets you hear the music the way the artist intended.
In every piece of every cartridge, they strive for perfection, and when the technology can’t deliver the quality Ortofon want – they invent something that can. To ensure the highest of quality in our product Ortofon keep everything close. All the cartridges are designed and crafted in Denmark.
Ortofon’s dedication to excellence is mirrored in the approach: each cartridge is meticulously crafted in Denmark to maintain the highest standards. Collaborating with Danish Industrial designer Møller Jensen Design, the 2M Series draws inspiration from the graceful facets of a diamond, a motif that elegantly mirrors the contours of record grooves.
Form and functionality harmonize seamlessly, encapsulating the timeless sophistication of the 2M series.
Specifications
- Channel balance at 1 kHz 1 dB
- Output voltage at 1 kHz, 5cm/sec 5 mV
- Channel seperation at 1 kHz 26 dB
- Channel seperation at 15 kHz 15 dB
- Frequency response 20 Hz – 20 kHz 2 / – 0 dB
- Tracking ability at 315Hz at recommended tracking force 80 µm
- Compliance, dynamic, lateral 22 µm/mN
- Stylus type Nude Shibata
- Stylus tip radius r/R 6/50 µm
- Tracking force range 1.4-1.7 g (14-17 mN)
- Tracking force, recommended 1.5 g (15 mN)
- Tracking angle 20°
- Internal impedance, DC resistance 1.2 kOhm
- Cartridge weight 7.2 g
- Premounted cartridge weight 16.7 g
- Recommended load resistance 47 kOhm
- Internal inductance 630 mH
- Recommended load capacitance 150-300 pF
