The new MC Anna coming soon!

Ortofon is proud to present the MC Anna, a newly developed High-End cartridge.

This state-of-the-art product represents a combination of the following elements which are very characteristic of Ortofon:

• Housing and body of the cartridge are made in Titanium with SLM manufacturing process. The Selective Laser Melting manufacturing process was pioneered by Ortofon  for construction of the MC A90, SPU 90th Anniversary and Xpression cartridges.

• New improved magnet system which Ortofon has patent pending. High performance iron-cobalt alloy is applied for some parts of the magnet system.

• 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 stylus in existence. Special polished Nude Ortofon Replicant 100 on Boron cantilever provides more responsive and transparent sound reproduction.

High-end materials benefit new coil technology

An engineering feature adding to the damping capability of the MC Anna cartridge is the recently developed Selective Laser Melting process in which fine particles of Titanium are welded together, layer-by-layer, to construct a single piece body devoid of unnecessary material. It is impossible to construct the body by conventional machining technology.

Using this technique the density of the body can be precisely controlled, allowing for extremely high internal damping. The final result provides absolute freedom from resonances existing in the cartridge body material and allows for the MC Anna to be perfectly matched with an extremely wide array of different tonearms.

Because of the SLM-based construction, each cartridge body is cosmetically unique and will show small dimples or lines under close examination.

Using expensive ultra-pure oxygen free copper allows for zero-loss transmission of the diamonds movements via its boron cantilever. This combination combines low moving mass with extremely high degree of rigidity.

The specially designed precision molded non-magnetic armature achieves extreme precision in each coil turn in all layers. The armature design allows a very well defined interface to the rubber absorbers. The material applied for the armature has very high strength and rigidity.

The bottom cover has been constructed from a special proprietary TPE (Thermo-Plastic Elastomer) material, which provides extremely high damping.

Output impedance of 6 ohm and a low to medium output voltage of 0.2 mV make MC Anna a perfect partner for most phono preamps and step-up transformers, including the new Ortofon ST-80 SE.

When combined with Ortofon's world-class knowledge in analogue sound reproduction, the new MV Anna will undoubtedly provide sound which is literally unsurpassed and simply has to be experienced.

Specifications subject to change without notice.