Ortofon Quintet Black S Moving Coil Cartridge

The Quintet Black is the best example of Quintet’s overall excellence.

With its nude Shibata diamond, considered one of the best stylus profiles available, mounted on a high-performance sapphire cantilever, the Quintet Black S offers an exceedingly wide contact area to the walls of the groove and ensures detailed and pure reproduction throughout the spectrum, including even the most high frequency groove information.

The Quintet Story

Nothing demonstrates Ortofon’s long-standing resilience more than its commitment to the refinement of analog sound quality and its continued development of new cartridge models. Since 1948 Ortofon has introduced about 100 different moving coil models, with our latest being the Quintet Series.

The MC Quintet Series is congruent with Ortofon’s unrelenting commitment to providing the most precise and accurate reproduction possible without coloration:

• A special PC thermoplastic material is used for manufacturing of the body. This light-weight, impact resistant material is very suitable for injection-moulding and provides a very durable scratch resistant surface.
• Neodymium magnets are implemented to achieve an optimal output.
• Low internal impedance makes the cartridge less sensitive to load and therefore ensures compatibility with the widest range of preamps and transformers.
• Top-mounting of the Quintet cartridges is easy and secure using the screws supplied. The aluminum frame has threaded mounting holes and is fitted easily with the 5 mm or 7 mm screws depending on the thickness of the headshell. The Quintet series’ right angles, straight lines, stylus visibility and ample distance between the record surface and the cartridge’s bottom will make it easy to mount and align the cartridge and tonearm correctly. The Quintet Series gives excellent results with most common tonearms.

Specifications

Stylus Type: Nude Shibata on sapphire cantilever

Output Voltage: 0.3 mV

Channel Balance: <1 dB

Channel Separation: > 23 dB

Frequency Range (3 dB): 20 – 25,000 Hz

Tracking Ability: 80 µm

Compliance: 15 µm/mN

Stylus Radius (r/R): 6/50 µm

Tracking Force (Range, Recc.): 2.1-2.5 g, 2.3 g

Tracking Angle: 20°

Internal Impedance: 5 ohm

Recommended Load Impedance: >20 ohm

Weight: 9 g