Ortofon MC Diamond

Ortofon MC Diamond - the best Ortofon pick-up ever

Ortofon's best pick-up ever, MC Diamond, delivers music like you've never heard it before. Ortofon strives to deliver the ultimate music experience through a blend of innovation, technical expertise and inspiration. Representing numerous Ortofon design elements and ideals, this new state-of-the-art pick-up truly exemplifies the highest level of performance possible in modern analog playback technology.

MC Diamond has a titanium body, optimized magnet system, and a new rubber suspension that provides a completely new experience for audio enthusiasts.

"It's recorded music like you've never heard it before - the most authentic vinyl experience in the world", said Leif Johannsen, Ortofon's Chief Officer of Acoustics and Research.

New improved rubber suspension
For the new MC Diamond pick-up, the Ortofon Wide Range Damping System (WRD) has been redesigned with an improved rubber suspension specially developed in-house.

The WRD system was originally introduced in the MC 20 Mk II in 1979 and was also subsequently used in the MC A90, MC Windfeld, Xpression, MC Anna, MC Anna Diamond and MC Century pickups. In this system, a small, heavy platinum disk is sandwiched between two rubber absorbers with different properties. This not only ensures exceptional tracking ability, but also creates perfect damping throughout the entire frequency spectrum. Because of this, distortion and resonance are almost completely eliminated.

The new rubber compound formula is based on Multi Wall Carbon Nano Tube (MWCNT) highly effective nanofillers. The new MWCNT-based compound offers desirable mechanical properties that allow optimal interaction between compliance and damping, which improves stability and playability and ensures unmatched sound quality.

Pick-up body
The pick-up body of the MC Diamond is made from titanium using Ortofon's custom Selective Laser Melting (SLM) technique. This technique allows precise control of the density in the body, which provides extremely high internal damping and results in a significant reduction of vibrations and improved sound quality.

Magnetic system
MC Diamond's magnet system combines selected materials, optimized geometry and exceptional consistency to deliver exceptional performance. Together with the non-magnetic armature, the result is lifelike, highly accurate sound recordings defined by almost infinite dimensionality.