Ortofon - 2M Black LVB 250

The 2M Black is an amazing cartridge and, by many, considered the ultimate in moving magnet. So, why would we attempt to create something even better? Because perfection runs in our blood. The 2M Black LVB 250 upgrades the great build of the 2M Black, and the result is a sound so precise and so detailed that you feel like you have let the artist into your house and have them playing right in your living room.

The Ortofon Exclusive 2M Black LVB 250 model

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, Ortofon announced the release of the 2M Black LVB 250 Exclusive Model.

The 2M Black LVB 250 upgrades the great build of the 2M Black with a boron cantilever and our very own Nano Tube suspension system. The result is a sound so precise and so detailed that you feel like you have let the artist into your house and have them playing right in your living room.

The 2M Black flagship from Ortofon is widely acknowledged as being one of the best MM cartridges on the market, being “open, fast, detailed, vivid, full of vitality and sonically spectacular”, - Marc Mickelson, The Audio Beat, August 2016. But at Ortofon being the best doesn’t mean that we can’t get better.

BENEFITS OF HIGH-END MATERIALS AND ADVANCEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGIES

Stylus
The 2M Black LVB 250 upgrades the great build of the 2M Black with a Nude Shibata diamond on a boron cantilever. The use of an extremely stiff and lightweight Boron cantilever adds remarkable transparency, speed, and responsiveness.

The Nude Shibata stylus’ slim, highly polished profile allows an exceedingly wide contact area to the groove walls and ensures notably detailed reproduction throughout the spectrum, including even the highest frequencies.

The 2M Black LVB 250 has been recreated from the concepts of its predecessor, the 2M Black, but the 2M Black LVB 250 performance takes one step further to enhance the cartridge’s capabilities and technical excellence.

The 2M Black LVB 250 uses a Nude Shibata diamond on a Boron cantilever, the combination known from the acclaimed MC Cadenza Black cartridge. The Nude Shibata stylus’s slim, highly polished profile allows an exceedingly wide contact area to the groove walls and ensures notably detailed reproduction throughout the spectrum, including even the highest frequencies.

The use of an extremely stiff and lightweight Boron cantilever adds remarkable transparency, speed and responsiveness. To attain an optimal interaction between compliance and damping, a new rubber compound for the suspension system has been developed. The new rubber compound formula is based on the Multi Wall Carbon Nano Tubes (MWCNT) highly efficient nano filler. The new MWCNT-based compound offers desirable mechanical properties, which ensure better damping and improve the overall performance of the cartridge.

Rubber suspension
The 2M Black LVB 250 features our very own Nano Tube suspension system. The new rubber compound formula is based on the Multi Wall Carbon Nano Tubes' (MWCNT) highly efficient nano filler. The new MWCNT-based compound offers desirable mechanical properties, which ensure better damping and improve the overall performance of the cartridge.

Also, the new MWCNT rubber compound allows for more environmental-friendly production, adding further benefit. The MWCNT powder is applied in a rubber polymer matrix and not in a powdered form, which makes the production process more clean, non-polluting and energy saving.

PERFORMANCE WITH A RANGE OF COMPATIBILITY
The 2M Series is designed for easy cartridge mounting, weight, and size to fit the most common turntables today.

The 2M Series are available in four different product variant configurations: the 2M for most common turntables on the market; the 2M Premounted, for customers who wish direct and easy mounting and replacement on their S-shaped tonearm; the 2M Verso, for bottom mount headshells; and the 2MR, which is designed cartridge housing tailored for turntables and tonearms like Rega, matching their requirement for low-form factor cartridges.

With an optimal weight of 7.2 g and compliance of 22 μm/mN to suit the vast majority of modern tonearms, the 2M Black LVB 250 is easily compatible with an endless array of modern High-End equipment and is the ultimate solution for high fidelity reproduction.

Specifications

Channel balance at 1 kHz:  1 dB
Output voltage at 1 kHz, 5cm/sec:  5 mV
Channel separation at 1 kHz:  27 dB
Frequency response 20 Hz - 20 kHz:  + 2 / - 1 dB
Tracking ability at 315 Hz:  80 µm
Compliance, dynamic, lateral:  22 µm/mN
Cantilever material:  Boron
Stylus type:  Nude Shibata diamond
Stylus tip radius:  r/R 6/50 µm
Tracking force range:  1.5-1.7 g (15-17 mN)
Tracking force, recommended:  1.6 g (16 mN)
Tracking angle:  20°
Internal impedance, DC resistance:  1.2 kOhm
Cartridge color:  Black/Black
Cartridge weight:  7.2 g
Recommended load resistance:  47 kOhm
Internal inductance:  630 mH
Recommended load capacitance:  150-300 pF
Replacement stylus unit:  2M Black LVB 250
Interchangeable with:  2M Bronze and 2M Black