How many turntables?
More from Ortofon: Kontrapunkt c and MC 15 Super Mk II Kurt Martens of Essential Audio, the distributor of both Pro-Ject and Ortofon here in Canada, knows how to dangle a carrot. Back before Christmas, Kurt asked in passing if I d be interested in comparing three different Ortofon cartridges on three identical Pro-Ject 2 Xperience turntables. “Why, yes,” I replied cagily. “I may well be interested in such an exercise.” Gotta be cool when someone offers you three fully loaded turntables. Several weeks later, Kurt arrived with said turntables and we prepared for an evening s listening. In our extreme hurry to get things going, we proceeded in precisely the wrong order. The first table we pulled out of the box had the most expensive cartridge bolted to it. The Kontrapunkt c (there s also an a, b and h, making up the four letters in J.S Bach s last name), which retails for $1599, proved to be a real smoothie, with a seamless top-to-bottom coherency that was an absolute delight on all forms
