Ortofon Quintet Bronze

Data

General

• Manufacturer: Ortofon
• Model: Quintet Bronze
• Years of manufacture: 2013 - ?
• Made in: Denmark
• Colour: yellow
• Weight: 9 g
• Original price approx.: 600,- €

Technical Data

• Principle: Moving Coil (MC)
• Frequency response: 20 - 25,000 Hz
• Channel separation: > 23 dB at 1 kHz
• Channel balance: 0 < 1,2 dB bei 1 kHz
• Übersprechdämpfung:
• Ausgangsspannung: >.5 mV
• Terminating resistor: > 20 Ohm
• Internal resistance (DC): 5 Ohm
• Needle type: Fine Line (r/R: 8/40 µm), naked on aluminium needle carrier
• Recommended contact force: 23 mN
• Needle compliance: 15 µm/mN
• Scanning capability at 315 Hz: 80 µm

Remarks

[[File:Ortofon MC Quintet Series phono cartrigdes.png|mini|OrtofonAS, CC BY-SA 4.0]

• Coil material: 4N pure copper.
• Included are two sets of mounting screws with screwdriver, headshell cable, cleaning brush and a tonearm scale.

Other models of the same series:

• Ortofon Quintet Black
• Ortofon Quintet Blue
• Ortofon Quintet Bronze
• Ortofon Quintet Red

Predecessor of the series (lt Stereo 8/2014): Vivo Blue

Reports

• Stereo issue 8/2014
  • Sound level: 76
  • Price/Performance: excellent.

"In Ortofon's 'color scheme' it is customary for the bronze tone to stand for sonorous timbre - within narrower limits, of course. And in the Quintet series, it is the same. The aluminium tube of the yellow MC, set with a diamond in Ortofon's tried-and-tested 'Fine Line' cut, directs the vibrations to an armature whose coils carry high-purity copper wire. Compared to the Blue, the Bronze's performance exudes a cultured solidity. The music bubbles even more fluidly, the upper registers, for all their airy presence, are more unobtrusive, voices are smoother, more luminous and the spectrum is opened up further into the depths than with the Blue. In baroque concerts, for example, the Bronze creates a gossamer grace and sparkling aura that the Blue lacks, and also offers the more intense colours. The pickup rounds off the performances only slightly, it neither applies thickly nor darkens the trebles, but appears sinewy-tight and well sorted in the bass and mildly radiant at the top. It's the nuances of the lightly hand-supported fundamental range, along with a touch of sympathetic sweetness, that make the difference to the Blue and justify the premium price, especially for lovers of symphonic music, acoustic instruments or, say, the singer-songwriter genre."

Links

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