A
Danish company specializing in
cartridge and
stylus manufacturing for
turntables.
Ortofon was founded by
Axel Petersen and
Arnold Poulsen in
1918. They started as
Electrical Fonofilms Company A/S, producing systems for recording
sound into
film. Their achievements include being the first ones to provide fully
synchronized sound to films plus
outdoor film
audio recording. After
World War II they included record
cutting and production
equipment in their line-up, eventually moving to
stereo cartridges and styluses.
Nowadays Ortofon A/S is one of the leading turntable
accessory manufacturers, with the
high-end Moving Coil cartridges and the
Concorde DJ line being their most well known products. The
quality of Ortofon equipment is often
praised, and especially the DJ products
blow away all competitors according to many. I simply
love my Concorde Pro.
:)