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When it comes to craftsmanship, Ortofon’s 100-plus years of sonic innovations have spanned high-octane turntablism to premier at-home listening. The company’s Concorde Music series of moving magnet cartridges represents a culmination of upper-echelon engineering, impressing Sweetwater’s DJs with their range of hi-fi playback capabilities, user-friendly installation, and exacting accuracy. Each cartridge utilizes a custom rubber compound developed exclusively in house at Ortofon, providing vital suspension and vibration-dampening components integral to the Concorde Music series’ industry-leading performance. To ensure precise playback and a lush, dynamic sound image, Ortofon designed a quad-coil system for each entry in the series, featuring four split-pole pins crafted from silver-plated, oxygen-free copper. This array of upgradable cartridges offers unrivaled clarity and striking capture of every nuance and dynamic detail, providing listeners with superior performance at every stage of their vinyl odyssey. The Concorde Music cartridge’s wire- and screw-free mounting system promises compatibility with any S-shaped tonearm, netting Ortofon a lauded Danish Industrial Design Award and cementing the company's lauded status within the audio industry. Now, which record are you playing first?





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An overview of Concorde Music styli





Each stylus in the series has been meticulously crafted to serve vinyl lovers of all creeds, providing a path of successively upgradable style that ensures uncompromising listening and exacting accuracy at each stage. With elliptical, nude elliptical, nude fine line, and nude Shibata styli, alongside aluminum and boron cantilevers, Concorde Music styli are primed for unmatched sonic preservation, ensuring you hear your favorite artists’ works exactly as they were intended to be enjoyed. Once you dial in your tracking force to a smooth 1.8G, the Concorde Music stylus handles the rest.





Concorde Music Red: Featuring an elliptical stylus and aluminum cantilever, this marks the beginning of the Concorde Music odyssey


Concorde Music Blue: The second stage and upgrade from Red, this model includes a nude elliptical stylus and aluminum cantilever


Concorde Music Bronze: Stage three and upgrade from Blue, Bronze features a nude fine line stylus and an aluminum cantilever


Concorde Music Black: The fourth stage in the series’ evolution, Black succeeds bronze, upgrading to a nude Shibata stylus and aluminum cantilever


Concorde Music Black LVB 250: The zenith of premier playback, the nude Shibata stylus is accompanied by an upgraded boron cantilever, balancing both lighter weight and greater dimensional stability than aluminum, ensuring the finest grooves are faithfully reproduced


Ortofon: raising the bar





At Sweetwater, Ortofon commands respect. Started in 1918 by two Danish engineers, Ortofon's early years saw the development and refinement of film sound equipment. The company introduced its first high-fidelity moving-coil cartridge in 1948. Fast-forwarding to the 1980s, Ortofon claimed the high ground in the burgeoning DJ industry with the original Concorde moving-magnet cartridges, which became an industry standard. Today, by incorporating new features requested by top DJs, Ortofon's next-generation cartridges raise the bar for superior sound reproduction and groove handling.





Ortofon Concorde Music Cartridge Features:


Meticulously engineered for unparalleled listening that accompanies you through every stage of your sonic odyssey


Versatile functionality accommodates use to both replace existing Concorde Music cartridge models and seamlessly upgrade throughout the series


Award-winning construction allows you to mount cartridges to any S-shaped tonearm to enhance virtually any listening environment


Innovative quad-coil system utilizes split-pole pins and silver-plated, oxygen-free copper for superior channel balance and unmatched clarity


Suspension system features an exclusive rubber compound developed in-house to enhance performance with tailored support for the series


Included stylus guard means easy protection for long-haul listening