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Hi-Fi World 2007 awards winner! This prestigious award is not handed out lightly. The judges assess all products reviewed throughout the year to bestow this coveted accolade. The flagship 2M Black utilizes the finest ever stylus to appear on a MM cartridge - the legendary Shibata, a profile never before seen on a cartridge costing comparatively so little. Featuring a heavily upgraded generator and a proprietary body material, 2M Black is exceedingly fast, detailed and supremely musical. Excellent value and comes with our highest recommendation.

High 3.3 mV output moving coil P-Mount (T4P) cartridge with elliptical nude stylus. Ortofon MC 1 and 3 Turbo are designed to operate into conventional moving magnet (MM) inputs without a separate step up transformer. A neat solution here for budget cartridge buyers with T4P tonearms.

The 2M Blue uses the same structure as the Red but reaches deeper into the groove with its new highly polished nude elliptical stylus. The result is far better tracing and quieter reproduction. The 2M Blue easily outperforms the older OM30 by a significant margin.

The 2M Bronze features a nude fine line stylus, polished to the highest standards. The slimmer profile of this stylus will track even the highest frequency modulations, making this cartridge better suited for extremely demanding material. Distortion and record wear are substantially reduced.

The new introductory Ortofon 2M Red is an update of Ortofon's best-selling OM range. The 2M body, generator and stylus profile have all been greatly improved. This great budget cartridge now integrates 21st century technology in an affordable package.

With an elliptical stylus, OM 5E promises quality sound from Ortofon's moving magnet (VMS) system. New technology and further optimization have produced the greatest sounding magnetic cartridges from Ortofon - ever! Ortofon has been designing and manufacturing magnetic cartridges for more than 20 years. In providing an economic alternative to the renowned Ortofon moving coil cartridges, the magnetic models have established a firm position for themselves among music lovers and Hi-Fi cognoscenti the world over. Naturally, the magnetic cartridges also benefits from Ortofon's research and experience in transducer technology. Sophisticated styli, light and rigid cantilevers, and advanced magnetic circuitry have produced a level of quality which is state-of-the-art within the magnetic category. The Super OM cartridges have been designed on the basis of Ortofon's lightweight moving magnet system - originally introduced in the OM (Optimum Match) Series - with two major refinements. By means of advanced computer simulation methods, it has been possible to define the natural pivot point of the system with unprecedented accuracy while achieving an optimum oscillation balance