Ortofon 2MR Black LVB 250 - Limited Edition
Designed for playing 78 rpm shellac records & perfectly suited to Rega turntables
The 2MR 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 Ortofon 2MR features a specially designed cartridge housing tailored for turntables and tonearms like Rega, matching their requirement for low-form factor cartridges.
Accuracy level
The 2M Black is an amazing cartridge and, by many, considered the ultimate in moving magnet. So, why would Ortofon attempt to create something even better? Because perfection runs in their blood!
The 2MR 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.
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.
Product Features
Newly developed low form factor cartridge housing within the famous 2M series:
- Slimline cartridge body - Effectively eliminates the need for tonearm spacers, shims or modifications
- 100% compatibility with the 2M styli - All Ortofon 2M styli fits on all 2MR cartridge models
- Standard half inch mounting - Quick and easy mounting on the tonearms with just two screws
- A complete series ranging from Mono to Premium: 2MR Red to High-end: 2MR Black LVB 250
2MR Black LVB 250:
- Nude Shibata diamond on a Boron cantilever with a High-end Ortofon MWCNT rubber damper
- Quad coil motor system with four sliver-plated copper coils and four split pole pins
- The 2MR Black LVB 250 sound is so precise and detailed that you feel like you have let the artist into your house
Technical Specifications
- Output voltage at 1000 Hz, 5cm/sec. - 5 mV
- Channel balance at 1 kHz - < 1 dB
- Channel separation at 1 kHz - > 27 dB
- Channel separation at 15 kHz - 15 dB
- Frequency response - 20-20.000 + 2 / - 1 dB
- Tracking ability at 315Hz at recommended tracking force - 80 µm
- Compliance, dynamic, lateral - 22 µm/mN
- Stylus type - Nude Shibata
- Stylus tip radius - r/R 6/50 µm
- Cantilever material - Boron
- 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
- Internal inductance - 630 mH
- Recommended load resistance - 47 kOhm
- Recommended load capacitance - 150-300 pF
- Cartridge colour, body/stylus - Black/Black
- 2MR cartridge weight - 6 g
- 2M and 2M Verso cartridges weight - 7.2 g
- 2M Pre-mounted cartridge weight - 16.7 g
*Reprint from manufacturers website.