The Ortofon Stylus Concorde Music Blue is the replacement stylus for the Concorde Music Blue cartridge and the second tier of the Concorde Music range. Sitting above the entry-level Red and below the Bronze and Black, it pairs a nude elliptical diamond with an aluminium cantilever to deliver a more refined, open and detailed sound than the Red. The same stylus also fits any Concorde Music cartridge body, so it can be used to step a Red body up to Blue-grade performance.
Nude Elliptical Stylus
An elliptical tip presents a narrower contact line to the groove wall than a spherical profile, tracing high-frequency modulations more accurately and improving stereo imaging. The diamond is nude rather than tipped: the whole working tip is mounted directly on the cantilever for lower effective tip mass and faster transient response. Tip radius is 8/18 µm.
Aluminium Cantilever
An aluminium tube cantilever transmits groove modulations to the generator with low mass and high stiffness. Combined with the nude elliptical tip, it gives the Blue stylus the dynamics, resolution and openness that mark it as a clear step up from the Red.
Concorde Music System
All Concorde Music styli are interchangeable with all Concorde Music cartridge bodies, so the Blue stylus can be used as a direct replacement on a Concorde Music Blue, or as an upgrade path on a Red. The cartridge itself plugs straight into any SME-style headshell or integrated headshell tonearm without alignment tools, making it equally at home in a hi-fi or DJ setup. The stylus is also available in higher-grade Bronze, Black and Black LVB 250 versions as further upgrades.
