Ortofon VMS 20 E MK II
Data[edit]
General
- Manufacturer: Ortofon
- Model: VMS 20 E MK II
- Year of manufacture: 1977 onwards
- Made in: Denmark
- Color: metal chrome, needle insert black
- Weight: 5 g
- Original price (approx.): 170, - DM
Technical Data
- Principle: Moving Magnet (MM))
- Output voltage: 6 mV / 1,000 Hz
- Channel balance: 2.0 dB / 1kHz
- Crosstalk attenuation: 25 dB / 1kHz
- Frequency response: 20 - 22,000 Hz
- Sampling capability: 70 μm / 300 Hz
- Tracking force: 7.5 - 15 mN
- Recommended tracking force: 10 mN
- Needle compliance: lateral 20 µm/mN
- Needle type: Elliptical
- Rounding degree of the diamond: 8/18µm
- Mass of the diamond tip: 0.65 mg
- Vertical scan angle: 20
- Forward resistance: 800 Ohm
- Inductance: 600 mH
- Recommended terminating resistor: 47 kOhm
- Recommended load capacitance per channel: 400 pF
Remarks[edit]
- According to catalogue "for ... highest quality turntables".
- The model series further includes:
- Ortofon VMS 3 E MK II
- Ortofon VMS 5 E MK II
- M 20 E Super for ultra-light tonearms;
- M 20 FL Super (Fine Line needle) for tonearms with relatively high moving mass;
- FF 15 Mk II/FF 15 E Mk II: for simpler turntables, rougher treatment (e.g. in discotheques) and to improve the quality of inexpensive systems (according to catalogue).
Reviews[edit]
- Stereoplay: "... pleasant, warm and silky sound character ..., homogeneity and grace. ... exact spatial reproduction not quite succeeded, top class III".
Link[edit]
- Illustrated 1977 catalog, retrieved October 22, 2019