The Concorde Music Blue sits second from the top of Ortofon's Concorde Music HiFi cartridge range, between the Bronze above and the Red below. Like the rest of the series it pairs a moving magnet generator with the iconic Concorde body shape, an integrated cartridge and headshell that fits any S-shaped tonearm using the standard bayonet connector and requires no tools or alignment when mounted.
Stylus and cantilever
The Blue uses a Nude Elliptical diamond mounted on an aluminium cantilever. The elliptical profile has a narrower contact area than a spherical tip, giving improved tracking accuracy and high-frequency extension while keeping the stylus easy to set up. Tracking force is 1.8 g and the stylus tracks 80 µm at 315 Hz.
Generator system
Inside the body sits Ortofon's quad-coil moving magnet generator, with four split pole pins and silver-plated oxygen-free copper coil wire. Output is 6 mV at 1 kHz (5 cm/sec), channel separation is 25 dB and channel balance is held to 1.5 dB at 1 kHz. Recommended load is 47 kΩ in parallel with 150 to 300 pF.
Suspension and body
The stylus suspension uses Ortofon's own rubber compounds, developed and produced in-house at the Nakskov factory. The cartridge body is a polymer and brass construction, weighs 18 g and presents a 20° vertical tracking angle.
Upgrade path
The whole Concorde Music range shares a common body, so the stylus alone can be swapped to step up or down within the series. The Blue accepts every Concorde Music stylus, including the Bronze, the Black and the limited Concorde Music Black LVB 250 anniversary stylus, simply by pulling the old stylus off and pressing the new one into place.
In the box
The cartridge ships with a stylus brush and a rubber ring. The rubber ring sits between the cartridge and the tonearm and prevents over-tightening of the bayonet collar.
