Ortofon introduces the MC Anna, the new High End flagship cartridge.
At the High-End show May 2011 in Munich Ortofon was very pleased to showcase the brand newest High End flagship MC Anna.
Ortofon has a long tradition paying tribute to the persons who had been a feature of the High-End culture, Ortofon culture and Music culture and history.
In honour of these remarkable persons Ortofon launched a number of products through the last years, incl. MC Windfeld, MC Rohmann, Kontrapunkt BACH series etc.
This year Ortofon is very proud and honored to introduce a new High End cartridge MC Anna, dedicated to the virtuoso opera singer Anna Netrebko. By this Ortofon will emphasize their commitment and devotion to the music, pure musicality and the power it possesses.
MC Anna represents a combination of following elements very characteristic for Ortofon:
• The housing and the body of the cartridge are made in Titanium with SLM technique. The Selective Laser Melting technique was pioneered by Ortofon for manufacturing of the MC A90, SPU 90th Anniversary and Xpression cartridges • The new improved magnet system which Ortofon has patent pending. High performance iron-cobalt alloy is applied for some parts of the magnet system • The new revolutionary armature damping system that provides complete elimination of unwanted resonance • Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond, thin and light, with an extraordinarily large contact surface, tracing accuracy unparalleled by any other needle in existence. Special polished Nude Ortofon Replicant 100 on Boron cantilever provides more responsive and transparent sound reproduction.
Initial Info Only. Price, Tech Specs & etc to follow once available.
REVIEW QUOTES HiFi News October 2012 Reviewed by James Huges
“Ortofon’s Anna is a gorgeously natural-sounding moving-coil cartridge offering tremendous subtlety and a rich, vivid tonality. It’s detailed and immediate, silky-smooth and refined, crisp and transparent…
... if you desire this level of sonic performance, there are no short cuts to perfection”
"...I found myself immersed in little micro-details of musical information presented in a very smooth and well mannered way, that built a sonic picture in my mind...
...This is a very difficult cartridge to fault. Its behaviour had the smooth sophistication that would pass muster at the ambassador's ball pictured in the well known Ferrero Roche adverts, yet it still managed to make Joplin's gravely tones sound both realistic and unpolished.
...In short, it is excellent. If you can afford it, then by one. If you can't afford it then start saving now!"