Ortofon MC Wind Field

• Manufacturer: Ortofon
• Model: Wind Field

years of construction: from about 2008

• Weight: 13 g

• New price approx.: 2.980 €

Technical data

• Principle: MC
• Frequency response: 10 - 80,000 Hz (- 3dB)
• Channel separation at 1 kHz: > 28 dB
• Channel balance:
• Crosstalk attenuation:
• Output voltage (1 kHz, 5 cm/sec): 0.3 mV
• Terminating resistor:
• Inductance:
• Needle type: Ortofon Replicant 100, specially polished, bare on boron needle carrier.
• Recommended tracking force: 26 mN
• Needle compliance: horizontal, dynamic 16 µm/mN

Special Features

Including.

• Neodymium magnet;
• Coil made of 99.999999 percent (8 N) pure and gold-plated copper;
• Sintered metal housing.

Note

• Name in honor of developer Per Windfeld, who had worked at Ortofon for 30 years in the cartridge field.
• Needle type related in MC Anna, Cadenza Bronze, base type in MC 3000 MK II and MC 5000.
• Needle carrier in MC Jubilee.

Reviews

• Stereophile 2008, see links;
• Stereoplay 2009, see links.

Links

• excerpt from Stereophile 2008 (English) at www.ortofon, link works January 2017;
• review Stereoplay, link works January 2017.