The Ortofon Salsa MC is a Top-Performance MC Cartridge.

The Ortofon Salsa is low-output MC cartridge (0.38mV) was designed to work with almost every turntable/tonearm combination available. The Salsa includes Ortofon’s specialty hand-polished Super Fine Line stylus which get deeper down into the grooves. The Salsa will unearth more of the music you love from the grooves without picking up surface noise due to the extremely sophisticated stylus assembly. Now at this special price, these Salsa low-output moving coil cartridges will disappear quickly. Act fast and grab one of these at an amazing price.

"...the Salsa is probably one of the most balanced sounding cartridges on the market today, giving a clear and accurate rendition of what is on an LP...a sober sounding 'sensible shoes' performer where balance is everything."
-- HiFi World, April 2007

The Salsa offers a 0.38mV output, and will work with any phono preamplifier with a minimum of 56dB of gain. Includes a built-in stylus guard. Recommended tracking force is 2.2g.

Output voltage: 0.38mV
Channel balance at 1 kHz: < 1 dB
Channel separation at 1 kHz: > 25 dB
Channel separation at 15 kHz: > 15 dB
Frequency range at - 3dB: 20-35.000 Hz
Frequency response: 20-20.000 Hz + 4 / - 2 dB
FIM distortion at recommended tracking force, DIN 45.542: < 1%
Tracking ability at 315Hz: > 80 μm
Compliance, dynamic, lateral: 15 μm/mN
Stylus type: Super Fine Line
Stylus tip radius: r/R 5/40 μm
Equivalent stylus tip mass: 0.4 mg
Tracking force range: 2.0-2.4 g (20-24 mN)
Tracking force, recommended: 2.2 g (22 mN)
Tracking angle: 20°
Internal impedance, DC resistance: 7 Ohm
Recommended load impedance: > 20 Ohm
Cartridge body material: Noryl
Cartridge color: Orange transparent
Cartridge weight: 7 g.

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