List of products by brand Ortofon

Original stylus with a bonded elliptical diamond. Fits the body of the 2M Red and the 2M Blue.

Elliptical stylus, 5.5 mV output, works on any phono input. The benchmark every entry-level cartridge is measured against – and it can be upgraded later with the Blue stylus without changing the body.

Nude elliptical diamond. Fits 2M Blue and 2M Red – on the Red body it makes a full 2M Blue, because the two bodies are identical.

The same body as the Red, but with a nude elliptical diamond: lower moving mass, cleaner tracking, considerably more resolution. LowBeats gave it the best rating of the entire range – not to the dearest model, but to this one.

The entry model of the MC X series launched in 2025: stainless-steel body, silver coils, 0.4 mV. STEREO called it “a small sensation”; Analog Planet pitched it against the 2M Red and called the result a rout.

Nude Fine Line diamond. Fits the bodies of 2M Bronze, 2M Black and 2M Black LVB 250 – not Red and Blue.

The entry to the upper half of the 2M range: nude Fine Line diamond, silver-plated coils, stiffer body. More analytical than Red and Blue – STEREO called it “a top MM at a keen price”, LowBeats found it divisive.

Nude Shibata diamond on aluminium. Fits 2M Black, 2M Bronze and LVB 250 – on the Bronze body it makes a full 2M Black.

Nude elliptical diamond in the new stainless-steel body, 0.4 mV. The model LP Magazin made Product of the Year and AVForums rated 10/10 “Best in Class”. The sweet spot of the series for anyone who does not need boron.

Nude Shibata diamond on the Bronze body, 5 mV output. The finest tracking you can get on an ordinary MM input – and, according to LowBeats, “an effortlessness and balance that only a few MC cartridges in this class can better”.

Nude Fine Line diamond, 0.4 mV, stainless-steel body. What Hi-Fi gave it five stars and the 2025 Award, LowBeats 4.7 “outstanding” – and placed it as an equal alongside the Goldring Eroica LX, until now the benchmark of the class.

The stylus unit of the LVB 250: nude Shibata diamond on a boron cantilever. Fits the bodies of 2M Bronze, Black and LVB 250 – LP Magazin noted that the anniversary model can be “rebuilt just fine” this way.

For Beethoven’s 250th birthday Ortofon gave the 2M Black a boron cantilever – technology otherwise reserved for MC cartridges from 3,000 euros upward. LowBeats: “perhaps the best MM cartridge ever built”. The stylus fits any Bronze or Black body.

The top of the MC X series: nude Shibata diamond on a boron cantilever, 0.4 mV. Michael Fremer put it up against the Quintet Black in an A/B test and found the gap “vast”; in 2026 FIDELITY placed it close to the Cadenza Black at a third of the price.