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Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 Moving Magnet Cartridge
Free UK Delivery
In Stock - Free Next-Day Delivery*
* Next Working Day Delivery Within Mainland UK if ordered before 2pm
Key Features
- Exclusive version of the 2M Black, built to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Nude Shibata diamond stylus mounted on a boron cantilever
- Special upgraded engine, featuring split pole pins with a silver plated copper wire
- Detailed sound reproduction throughout the spectrum, including even the most high-frequency groove information
- Reduced distortion and record wear
- Cartridge body made from highly rigid and resonance eliminating materials
- Remarkable transparency, speed and responsiveness
- The New MWCNT-based compound ensures better damping and improves the overall performance
- More environmentally-friendly production
- Easily compatible with an array of modern High-End equipment
- Exclusive LVB 250 design printed on the cartridge and stylus
- Replacement stylus available
Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 Moving Magnet Cartridge
Ortofon’s 2M Black LVB 250 MM Phono Cartridge is an enhanced version of the original 2M Black MM cartridges. It adds a Nude Shibata diamond stylus mounted on a Boron Cantilever as well as improved damping materials and process to improve performance and further enhance the cartridge’s capabilities and technical excellence. The 2M Black LVB 250’s is a celebration of what would have been Beethoven's 250th birthday.
Improved Stylus
The 2M Black LVB 250 uses a Nude Shibata diamond on a Boron cantilever, this set-up is used in Ortofon’s MC Cadenza Black cartridge, which is very popular any highly acclaimed. The Nude Shibata stylus has a slim and very polished profile that allows for an exceedingly wide contact area with record grooves, which ensures a precise and detailed audio reproduction. This is connected to an extremely stiff and lightweight Boron cantilever, which adds remarkable transparency, speed and responsiveness to the sound.
Rubber Compound Formula
A new rubber compound for the suspension system has been developed to ensure optimal interaction between compliance and damping. The rubber compound formula is based on the Multi Wall Carbon Nano Tubes highly efficient nano filler. The new nano filler compound offers desirable mechanical properties, which delivers better damping and an improved performance of the cartridge.
Energy Saving Materials
This rubber compound allows for a more environmental-friendly production. The rubber compounds formula is applied in a rubber polymer matrix and not in a powdered form, which makes the production process cleaner, non-polluting and energy saving.
Compatibility
The 2M Black LVB 250 cartridge has a weight of 7.2 g and compliance suited to most modern tonearms to allow it to be easily compatible with an endless array of modern High-End equipment.
Who is Ortofon?
Ortofon are a Danish manufacturer of high quality phono cartridges, designed to get the very most out of your vinyl collection from a variety of price points. Ortofon cartridges, both Moving Magnet and Moving Coil configuration are commonly found supplied with high quality ProJect turntable models, but Ortofon cartridges sound exceptional with any compatible turntable.
Output Voltage (at 1kHz, 5cm/sec): | 5mV |
Channel Balance at 1kHz: | <1dB |
Channel Separation at 1kHz: | >27dB |
Channel Separation at 15kHz: | 15dB |
Frequency Response 20Hz - 20kHz: | +2 / -1dB |
Tracking Ability at 315Hz: | Typically 80μm |
Compliance, Dynamic, Lateral: | 22μm / mN |
Stylus Type: | Nude Shibata |
Stylus Tip Radius r / R: | 6 / 50μm |
Tracking Force Range: | 1.5 - 1.7g (15 - 17mN) |
Recommended Tracking Force: | 1.6g (16mN) |
Tracking Angle: | 20º |
Internal Impedance / DC Resistance: | 1.2kΩ |
Internal Inductance: | 630mH |
Recommended Load Resistance: | 47kΩ |
Recommended Load Capacitance: | 150 - 300pF |
Cartridge Colour Body / Stylus: | Black / Black |
Cartridge Weight: | 7.2g |
Replacement Stylus Unit: | Stylus 2M Black LVB 250 |
UK Delivery
Providing your item is in stock, the order is usually dispatched within 24 hours. Postage and packing is completely free for orders over £99*. Out of stock items will be dispatched as soon as they become available, which can take between 4 to 21 days
UK Delivery orders are sent via our couriers' DPD Local on a next-day-delivery service and usually take between 1 and 3 days.
Local Delivery
Certain manufacturers disallow mail order for their products, however a local delivery may be possible.
We offer a local delivery service for a large number of our products. After your order has been placed, a member of the Hifi Gear team will contact you to arrange a convenient date and time for your local, personal delivery.
Click & Collect
We offer a free ‘Click & Collect’ service on all items. As soon as your order has been completed and is ready for collection a member of our team will be in contact with you. Orders can be collected from our store at 11 King Street, Hereford, HR4 9BW.
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