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SPU GTX S
The SPU GTX S delivers the best of both worlds, blending the musicality and rich tonal character that have defined Ortofon’s SPU series for decades with the latest innovations in audio technology.
Rediscover the rich, vintage warmth of vinyl with the Ortofon SPU GTX S, featuring a spherical stylus. The spherical stylus is the most common stylus shape and has a rounded tip that contacts the groove walls of the record, offering a balanced, smooth sound.
The built-in MC step-up transformer provides high-output, low-noise performance, preserving the classic SPU audio fidelity.
Precision engineering and craftsmanship
SPU GTX cartridges are hand-built by experienced workers in Denmark. Their unibody housings are molded in one piece from a specially selected glass-fiber reinforced co-polymer, never before used for SPU cartridges. This ensures a form-factor stable, rigid, and low resonance housing for the fine generating system. The bottom cover is molded from the same new material, encapsulating the engine in a uniform material and design.
A Modern Classic for Today’s Vinyl Enthusiast
The SPU GTX cartridges offer the best of both worlds, combining the musicality and rich tonal character that has defined Ortofon’s SPU series for decades with the latest innovations in audio technology.
The SPU GTX Series is designed to simplify your setup without compromising sound quality. By integrating a step-up transformer, the cartridge can be connected directly to any standard phono stage or amplifier as if it were a moving magnet cartridge. When developing the GTX series, Ortofon chose to develop the new step-up transformers in collaboration with the company Lundahl Transformers. Lundahl is known for their expertise in audio transformers and is a perfect fit for Ortofon.
- Channel balance at 1 kHz: 1.5 dB
- Output voltage at 1 kHz, 5cm/sec: 4 mV
- Channel separation at 1 kHz: 20 dB
- Frequency response 20 Hz - 20 kHz: ±3 dB
- Tracking ability at 315 Hz: 60 μm
- Compliance, dynamic, lateral: 10 μm/mN
- Stylus type: Spherical
- Stylus tip radius: r/R 8/18 μm
- Tracking force, recommended: 4 g
- Tracking angle: 20°
- Internal impedance, DC resistance: 610 Ω
- Coil wire material: OFC
- Cartridge colour: Black
- Cartridge weight: 38 g
- Recommended load capacitance: 150 – 600 pF
Ortofon-branded products are warranted against defects in materials and workmanship for a period of 2 years from the date of original retail purchase when used in accordance with Ortofon’s user manuals. If a defect arises during the warranty period, Ortofon, at its option will (1) repair the product at no charge or (2) exchange the product with one of equivalent functionality or one that is at least functionally equivalent to the product it replaces. This warranty excludes damage resulting from abuse, accident, modifications, unauthorized repairs, improper installation, or other causes that are not defects in materials and workmanship as well as normal depletion of consumable parts such as styli unless failure has occurred due to a defect in materials or workmanship.
"MAP" products are not Frequent Flyer eligible.
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