Ortofon
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Ortofon is a manufacturer of audio accessories based in the Danish town of Nakskov.
The product range includes cartridges, tonearms and accessories for record reproduction such as preamplifiers, transformers, mounting templates, cables as well as medical equipment. Ortofon is considered the market leader and the world's largest manufacturer of magnetic cartridges for record players, with approximately 500,000 sold annually. The company was founded on October 9, 1918 as the Electrical Phon Film Company. In 1948 Ortofon introduced the first moving coil cartridge to the market. In the meantime, more than 300 different cartridges have been developed.