The Ortofon Exclusives series of our highest performing Moving Coil cartridges has now been expanded to include a new premier model: the MC Anna Diamond.

As its name suggests, the MC Anna Diamond uses a solid Diamond cantilever that in combination with Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond offers extreme transparency, speed and responsiveness beyond that of any other combination.

Both MC Anna and MC Anna Diamond models represent the highest echelon of Moving Coil cartridges. These state of the art products, representative of numerous Ortofon design elements and ideals, are truly exemplary of the highest degree of performance possible in contemporary analogue playback technology.

The MC Anna and MC Anna Diamond cartridges represent a landmark in
Ortofon’s research and development

• The housing and the body of the cartridge are made in Titanium with the Selective Laser Melting (SLM) technique. The SLM technique was pioneered by Ortofon for manufacturing of the MC A90 and the SPU A90 cartridges,
  and was refi ned in subsequent Exclusive Series models.
• High-performance iron-cobalt alloy is applied for select parts of the magnet system.
• The WRD armature damping system provides complete elimination of unwanted resonance.
• The Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond, thin and light, with an extraordinarily large contact surface, provides tracing accuracy unparalleled by any other needle in existence.
• The MC Anna uses a Boron cantilever which is strong, stiff, light and 100% inert.
• The MC Anna Diamond features a new Diamond cantilever that ensures the best possible interface between the stylus and the armature. It offers speed, fl uidity, and harmonic reproduction beyond that of any other material. The use of Diamond cantilever in the MC Anna Diamond has prompted a paradigm shift in our understanding of analogue reproduction.

Benefits of high-end materials and advancements in technology

An engineering feature adding to the damping capability of the MC Anna and the MC Anna Diamond cartridges is the SLM technique in which fi ne particles of Titanium are welded together, layer-by-layer, to construct a single piece body devoid of unnecessary material. Using this technique, the density of the body can be precisely controlled, allowing for extremely high internal damping. The fi nal result provides absolute freedom from resonances existing in the cartridge body material and allows for the MC Anna and the MC Anna Diamond cartridges to be perfectly matched with an extremely wide array of different tonearms. Because of the nature of SLM-based construction, each cartridge body is cosmetically unique and will show small dimples or lines under close examination.

Arguably one of the most signifi cant advancements in the MC Anna and the MC Anna Diamond is our dramatically higher efficiency magnet system. The optimized geometry of the magnet system combined with choice materials like neodymium and iron-cobalt offers an unprecedented consistency of the flux density within the system’s air gap. Due to an increase of active material inside of the magnet system, the magnetic field strength is delivered more uniformly, allowing each coil to sense identical fl ux density regardless of its position. Because of this, dynamics and impulse linearity are preserved to an overwhelming extent.

The use of this new optimized magnet system allows for the use of a lightweight, non-magnetic armature, which also provides noteworthy benefi t to the dynamic capability of the MC Anna and the MC Anna Diamond cartridges. The reason for this is that our specially designed precision moulded non magnetic armature does not alter the magnetic fi eld during movement. Hence when combined with ultrapure oxygen-free copper coil wire, it delivers perfect reproduction of the cantilever movements without compromise. The material applied for the armature has very high strength and rigidity.

Because the new magnet system delivers a tremendous magnetic flux density, the need for design compromises is effectively eliminated. It is due to this aspect that the amount of coil windings required to achieve signifi cant output voltages is reduced to a minimum, resulting in a further reduction in moving mass.

The new magnet system has also allowed for more spaciousness within the air gap, allowing for coil windings to be done completely independent of each other, without any overlap or interaction between them and with an extreme precision in each coil turn in all layers. The cumulative result of these improvements simply delivers more lifelike reproduction, with nearly boundless imaging, dimensionality and dynamics.