The Ortofon Verismo Has Arrived!!!

[Birdwatcher]

Anybody who uses the Verismo in the meantime or heard it for a longer time?

 

[Birdwatcher]

The Verismo seems not to be a very popular and often sold cartridge, even if was offered as a new technology and fantastic „true and honest“ cartridge from Ortofon.

Has someone used and heard it longer?

Is it too mechanical, dry, uninvolving, unmusical, „too digital sounding“, or simply too correct to be a favorite and fascinating cartridge?

What are your opinions?

And there is a new Ortofon cartridge announced in this range, the MC 90X, a new designed A90.

 

[Wised]

A steal? you consider $7,100 for a cartridge a steal? I consider it a rip off! The stereo separation is only 25 db, and the frequency response is only 20 to 20. When Empire was around, they made a cart called the EDR9, this thing had a stereo separation of 31 db, and a frequency response of 5 to 50, price new was only $271. That Empire cart got raving reviews, and it's still what people compare other carts to today!

Those were specs from the manufacturer..... Like the horsepower figures from the era of the muscle car.... The specs from Ortofon are modern, normalized, standardized specifications. No cartridge ever made can match the Verismo. The Verismo can easily reproduce infrasonics below 20 and suprasonics up to 50khz. As to channel separation, again those specs from decades ago are entirely fantasy land. 25db is about the limit of what vinyl can physically attain. Besides that its an artificial measure, if you listen to left or right recorded material on a test record, the separation of the Verismo is actually over 80dB which happens to be the lowest noise floor attainable from vynil. The Verismo equals the MC Diamond (former Anna) in every measurable way for 3000 dollars less. Like in tweeter construction, the diamond cantiliver is simply a sound transducer without peer. The reason the Verismo seems like a bargain compared to other high fidelity cartridges from just a few years ago, is the price advantage of serialized mass production of what used to be laborious basically experimental microproduction processes. Selective laser melting, diamond cantilevers, and multiple other similar techniques are basicly old hat for Ortofon now. That said I'm certain they are making a nice bundle for every one they sell. Even at 7k, they are selling every single one they make.
Again, this is the best pickup EVER made bar none.

 

[Wised]

The Verismo seems not to be a very popular and often sold cartridge, even if was offered as a new technology and fantastic „true and honest“ cartridge from Ortofon.

Has someone used and heard it longer?

Is it too mechanical, dry, uninvolving, unmusical, „too digital sounding“, or simply too correct to be a favorite and fascinating cartridge?

What are your opinions?

And there is a new Ortofon cartridge announced in this range, the MC 90X, a new designed A90.

Too digital. If that means, unmatched signal to noise, lowest noise floor, unmatched transient response, lowest distortion. Basicly no "coloration". Yep, guilty as charged! Unnervingly accurate is what they really mean. A cartridge is not meant to be an "musical instrument", its job is to reproduce whats in the groove as precisely as physically possible. The result is, quite frankly, absolutely amazing. I was using an Ortofon Cadenza Black, a superb, very highly regarded cart in all respets. Yet compared to Verismo, it seems "veiled and warm". As I write this down, Ixm listening to "La Parnasse Francais" from the Archiv Produktion vinyl anthology, in summary, it feels like you are there in the studio. Every pitch, every note, every stroke of the bow, every strike of the keys reproduced exactly how it was recorded. It's a breathtaking expirience. Nothing more, nothing less. The apex of analog reproduction.