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:

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