Stereo MCs get connected

摘要

You think making a cartridge is a tricky operation? Try making 500,000 a year at a consistently high quality, as Ortofon does - a pioneer in the history of record reproduction. Andrew Harrison traces its evolution, and the R&D behind its new designs.It's generally acknowledged that the finest sound available from the LP record is via a moving-coil pickup cartridge. Less widely know, perhaps, is the fact that the moving-coil cartridge appeared right at the dawn of the LP era in 1948, and was first commercially produced by Ortofon in Denmark.