Ortofon MC Century Brand New Number 006/100

The MC Century!  Number 006/100 made.  Opened for this photo, has not been removed from the box.  I ship same day I receive payment and have a decade+ positive feedback.  I will include shipping, insurance, everything to your door. Herndon Audio is an authorized Ortofon dealer.

The MC Century represents numerous Ortofon design elements and ideals:

• The housing and the body of the cartridge are made in Titanium with SLM technique. 
• High-performance iron-cobalt alloy is applied for some parts of the magnet system.
• The armature damping system provides complete elimination of unwanted resonance.
• Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond, thin and light, with an extraordinarily large contact surface, tracing accuracy unparalleled by any other needle in existence.
• The crystal structure and exceptional hardness of the new Diamond cantilever insures the best possible interface between the stylus and the armature.
• The combination of Nude Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond on Diamond cantilever provides extremely responsive and transparent sound reproduction.

Advancements in technology -

An engineering feature adding to the damping capability of the MC Century cartridge is the Selective Laser Melting process in which fine particles of Titaniumare welded together, layer-by-layer, to construct a single piece body devoid of unnecessary material. Using this technique, the density of the body can be precisely controlled, allowing for extremely high internal damping. The final result provides absolute freedom from resonances existing in the cartridge body material and allows for the MC Century to be perfectly matched with an extremely wide array of different tonearms.

Because of the nature of SLM-based construction, each cartridge body is cosmetically unique and will show small dimples or lines under close examination.

Magnet and coils system and damping -
 

The optimized geometry of the high-efficiency magnet system combined with selected materials like neodymium and iron-cobalt offers an unprecedented consistency of the flux density within the system’s air gap. Due to an increase of active material inside of the magnet system, the magnetic field strength is delivered more uniformly, allowing each coil to sense identical flux density regardless of its position. Because of this, dynamics and impulse linearity are preserved to an overwhelming extent.

Using expensive ultrapure oxygen-free copper allows for zero-loss transmission of the diamonds movements via Diamond cantilever. This configuration combines low moving mass with an extremely high degree of rigidity.

The MC Century also uses a new degree of control over vibrations by way of a newly-improved wide-range armature damping system (WRD). By extending the armature beyond the coils, it can interface directly with the rubber dampers, which sandwich a small heavy disc of platinum. This offers more consistent movement, and thereby better stereo perspective and transient delineation.

Extremely high-end materials -

The specially designed precision molded non-magnetic armature achieves extreme accuracy in each coil turn in all layers. The armature design allows a very well defined interface to the rubber absorbers. The material applied for the armature has very high strength and rigidity.

The bottom cover has been constructed from a special proprietary TPE (Thermo-Plastic Elastomer) material, which provides extremely high damping.

As in the Exclusives series cartridges, the MC Century makes use of Ortofon’s Replicant 100 diamond, known for its thin and light profile and extraordinarily large contact surface. Since the Replicant 100 is closest to the shape of the cutting stylus, it can trace with accuracy unparalleled by any other needle in existence. Special polishing of the diamond along with the use of a Diamond cantilever offers extremely transparency, speed, and responsiveness beyond that of any other combination.

MC Century exclusive packaging

MC Century is delivered in an exclusive solid box featuring the Ortofon Anniversary logo printed on a lid. A lid is close-fitted using two hinges.

The box is made in Medium Density fiberboard, with high-gloss lacquer, inside covered with black velvet. The exclusive surface was chosen in order to achieve a hard, resistant, and beautiful white matte finish.

MC Century User guide and a Maintenance set in a tailored purse included the package.

Specifications:

Output voltage at 1000 Hz, 5cm/sec.  –  0.2 mV
Channel balance at 1 kHz  –  0.5 dB
Channel separation at 1 kHz  –  25 dB
Channel separation at 15 kHz  –  22 dB
Frequency response  –  20 Hz-20 kHz +/- 1.5 dB
Tracking ability at 315Hz at recommended tracking force  –  80 µm
Compliance, dynamic, lateral  –  9 µm/mN
Stylus type  –  Special polished Nude Ortofon Replicant 100 on Diamond Cantilever
Stylus tip radius  –  r/R 5/100 µm
Tracking force, recommended  –  2.3 g (23 mN)
Tracking angle  –  23°
Internal impedance, DC resistance  –  6 Ohm
Recommended load impedance  –  > 10 Ohm
Cartridge body material  –  SLM Titanium
Cartridge color –  Silver/Black
Cartridge weight  –  15 gram