Cadenza Black is the best of everything, true to the groove with resolution and accurate insight into each recording.
Features
- Nude Shibata Stylus
- Boron Cantilever
- Wide Range Damping System
- Gold-Plated Aucurum Coil Wire
- Detailed Sound Staging
- High-Resolution Groove Insight
Accuracy Level
The Cadenza Black model is using a Nude Shibata stylus with a boron cantilever. The effective mass of the stylus/cantilever system is extremely low due to the use of a very thin boron rod. This material is extremely stiff and even more lightweight than aluminum.
Wide Range Damping
It also uses the WRD/Wide Range Damping-system applied for MC Windfeld, MC A90, MC Anna, Xpression, and MC A95 cartridges, controlling the high and low frequency damping separately. The coil wire is the famous Ortofon Aucurum wire, which is a gold-plated 6NX copper wire. The Cadenza Black is high-performing on areas like detail, consistency, and sound staging.
The Cadenza Series
At Ortofon, we constantly look for new technology to be used in our products and push the performance of existing technology. Thus, we assure the highest level of performance and quality. The Kontrapunkt models and MC Jubilee became market standards and are among our most popular cartridges. Nevertheless, Ortofon decided to develop a new cartridge series that is even more ambitious.