Ortofon X 5-MC

Data

General

• Manufacturer: Ortofon
• Model: X5-MC
• Years of manufacture: ca. 1986 - ?
• Made in: Denmark
• Color: red
• Weight: 4,1 g
• Original price: ca. 450,-DM ;currently only available as used < ~ 225€

Technische Daten

• Prinzip: Moving Coil, high output (MC-HO)
• Frequenzgang: 20 - 45.000 Hz
• Kanaltrennung: >25 dB at 1 kHz
• channel balance: < 2 dB bei 1 kHz
• Übersprechdämpfung: 25 dB bei 1000Hz
• Ausgangsspannung: >2 mV
• Terminating resistor: 47 kOhm at <500 pF
• Internal resistance (DC): 80 Ohm
• Scanning capability at 315 Hz: 60 µm
• Needle type: Fritz Gyger 70 (r/R: 5/70 µm), naked on aluminum needle carrier
• Equivalent mass of diamond tip: 0.40mg
• Vertical scan angle: 23
• Range of contact force: 1.8g - 2.2g
• Recommended contact force: 2.0g
• Needle compliance: 13 µm/mN

Remarks

• MC cartridge with high output voltage for operation on MM phono inputs;
• A very well suited MC system for Ultra Leichte Masse > ULM tonearms (where with certainty the development at Ortofon in cooperation with the record player manufacturer Dual might have been designed).
• With T4P connector = Ortofon X 5-MCP;
• Other models in the same series:
  • X 1-MC
  • X 3-MC

Pictures

Links

• [Ortofon support at build time of the X1-MC] dated November 9, 2017.</2></~>