I still would have thought that being such an important milestone and being in production for 100 years, the cartridge releases are for the rich and famous, nothing for the common man who still has to pay big coin for a halfway product.
Halfway? Are the top end cartridges 4x the performance of the low end performers? Considering the Cadenza Bronze (at AUD$30000) is a 1/4 the price of the century releases, do they perform 4x better?
Again, the poor guy gets ripped off. (AUD$3000) for a average cart?
Each his flavor of the week but honestly, Ortofon is mainly known for DJ and cheap designed SPU cartridges.
They simply discovered that they can make much more money with a "High End" Product, so they launched A-90.
An awful, dead cartridge which was pushed from a few deaf audiophiles in USA, in the home country Germany it was nearly unsellable. Very limited in playing time, guess 1000h and it was down. Interestingly no one from its pushers wrote about that. The next audiophile cry was the one which was named for this female violin player, Anna. Next sonic shot into the knee.
And now another milestone, no sorry, the sonic game changer mk 25.5
The next sonic blockbuster of ’the famous blue stone of Galveston’ :-)
Great