TIME'S CELEBRATION: ORTOFON FIRST CENTURY ANNIVERSARY ! ! ! ! !

Dear @tomwh : """  Raul I have played in marching, concert, stage bands and orchestras. I play jazz at home. I also build all my own turntables, arms, power supplies and amps, phono stages etc... ."""

and that means?? please let me understand what you try to say.

""  Anyone who is in the know and can hear and feel music knows your so called understanding of distortion has little meaning in the end of the game of real music.  """

how is that because in a live event when you are seated in the near field the experience is way way different that the " same " one in a home audio system/room experiences where you need not only to be aware of different kind of distortions but to discern which kind of distortions/noise is and find out where its comes from.
Almost nothing of these happens in a live event .

Here too I can't understand what do you want to tell? why fruitless?  

Again, we can't compare in anyway a live event against any home audio system.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

Dear @tomwh : So where is your contribution to the audiophile in this forum?

In a forum like this posts are opinions and I think that every single opinion from any gentleman here must gives his opinion  always adding the " facts "  that could confirm or not  that opinion.

I can see/read that till this time you share nothing that could help to each one of us. Why don't do it?

R.

Dear @amg56: """  Halfway? Are the top end cartridges 4x the performance of the low end performers? """

quality levels does not jump in the same quantity. When we have say a cartridge that performs at 90% quality level against the very best that performs at 99%.
Pass from 95% to 99% is extremely difficult task for the manufacturer that needs not only knowledge and skills but a lot of tests and time consuming that when the cartridge new model comes out in the market the MK2 version price is to high that we can think as you: that maybe is not justified because only 4% better.

No, it's not 4x performance of the low end models. It can't be but what is for sure is that the top ones are better and for you can attest it you have to own a system that can tell you the differences for the better.

R.

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

@syntax  just to be correct: she's an opera singer, not a violin player :) Anna Netrebko studied and performed in my home town St.Petersburg. Ortofon Anna dedicated to her for some reason.