Ortofon Cadenza Red Moving Coil Cartridge

The first cartridge in the Cadenza Series, the Ortofon Cadenza Red Moving Coil Cartridge provides amazing sound performance that is open and dynamic. Not forgetting its great space and depth in the stereo image alongside many other excellent features.

• Premium cartridge with a great sense of space and depth in a clear stereo image
• Overhead mounting cartridge for installing into a headshell
• Moving Coil cartridge design
• Stainless steel and aluminium body construction
• Nude Fine-Line diamond stylus

CADENZA RED TECHNOLOGY

The Cadenza Red is a stylish, high-quality cartridge that boasts a nude fine-line stylus with a cylindrical aluminium cantilever. The stylus tip radius is r/R 8/40µm, allowing the diamond to read a significant amount of the recorded information. The internal coils are made from 6NX (99.9999%) pure silver wire for optimal signal generation, and the improved winding process on the armature allows a better channel balance for good stereo imaging.

CADENZA RED SOUND

The Cadenza Red delivers a sound performance that is open and dynamic, with a touch of warmth. It is more relaxed, homogeneous and moderately dynamic when compared to the Cadenza Blue. It also has great space and depth in the stereo image. All in, it is a very capable high-end cartridge.

Ortofon, as musical manufacturers, constantly look for new technology to be used in their products and aim to push the performance of existing technology. That’s why they’re able to deliver the highest level of performance and quality. The Kontrapunkt models and MC Jubilee became market standards and are among their most popular cartridges. Nevertheless, Ortofon decided to develop a new cartridge series that is even more ambitious.

By carefully implementing cobalt-iron pole pieces, new improved winding process on the armature, using extruded aluminium housing in the models as well as other changes, they have been able to reveal new possibilities in performing the analogue information. The Cadenza Series can out-perform all those that came before it.

Technical Specifications

• OUTPUT VOLTAGE (@ 1000HZ, 5CM/SEC.): 0.45 mV
• CHANNEL SEPARATION (@ 1000HZ): >23 dB
• FREQUENCY RESPONSE +2 / -0DB: 20 – 20000 Hz
• STYLUS TYPE: Nude Fine Line
• TRACKING FORCE RANGE: 2.2 – 2.7 g
• RECOMMENDED TRACKING FORCE: 2.5 g
• CANTILEVER MATERIAL: Aluminium Tube
• RECOMMENDED LOAD IMPEDANCE: 50 – 500 Ω
• CARTRIDGE WEIGHT: 10.7 g