Ortofon Arkiv

[Neuro]

As most of you know by now, not only am I strange for being a bit obsessional with tracklistings, and perfection, but I also like my audio tip-top too, as well as my Gin. Now, I'm not sure how long this has been around, but I'm thinking of purhasing the Ortofon Arkiv.

It is specially designed for ripping vinyl to your PC, and is unlike the other Ortofons as it has an elliptical and not a spherical stylus, and its output looks marginally nicer too. At £72 from Chemical Records I believe it is a worthwhile investment in my strife to extract the maximum out of my vinyl before selling it. Next stop will be a proper PC soundcard and I will be away!

Has anyone tried this or know of anyone who has used one?

Arkiv Concorde Cartridge :: Vinyl To Digital Transcription

Growing demand for the ability to transcribe vinyl to digital formats has prompted the creation of the Arkiv - a cartridge specially designed to provide optimized sound quality specifically for recording purposes. The Arkiv boasts clear and accurate soundreproduction and remarkable stereo imaging, making it perfectly suited for sampling, transcription, and numerous other professionalapplications. The Arkiv ships with an elliptical stylus, for extended high frequency response.

# Output voltage at 1000Hz, 5cm/sec - 6 mV

# Channel balance at 1kHz - 2 dB

# Channel separation at 1kHz - 23 dB

# Channel separation at 15kHz - 15 dB

# Frequency range at -3 dB - 20-22000 Hz

# Frequency response - 20-20000Hz +/-2 dB

# Tracking ability at 315Hz at recommended tracking force - 80 μ:m

# Compliance, dynamic, lateral - 9 μ:m/mN

# Stylus type - Special Elliptical

# Stylus tip radius - r/R 13/25 μ:m

# Tracking force range - 2.0-4.0 g (20-40 mN)

# Tracking force recommended - 3.0 g (30 mN)

# Tracking angle - 20°:

# Internal impedance, DC resistance - 750 Ohm

# Internal inductance - 450 mH

# Recommended load resistance - 47 kOhm

# Recommended load capacitance - 200-600 pF

# Cartridge weight - 18.5 g

# Replacement stylus unit - Arkiv

[Simcut]

Looks very good yeah.

I find my Ortofon Concorde Stylus perfect to be honest

What I would say is you need a good soundcard too. I'd recommend the Sound Blaster X-Fi card

[Moonman]

i like Ortofon Carts. When i had my Tech's i swore by the Ortofon Nightclubs. I hear that the Ortofon Nightclub 2's are supposed ti be very good too, have you considered those?

[Uberduck]

My soundcard is my stumbling block in respect of ripping vinyl to CD. I have a Packard Bell laptop that has a pretty basic soundcard so distortion can be a problem when recording mixes and trying to convert vinyl.

I'm not much of a techno-head so finding a solution to this is beyond me. Could I change the soundcard within the laptop (I suspect not) or could I use an external soundcard? I keep saying that I need to ge my vinyl collection onto CD but dont have the get-up-and-go to actually do it.

On the occasions when I have converted tracks from vinyl to CD the quality has been reasonable at best.

[Justin Haze]

My soundcard is my stumbling block in respect of ripping vinyl to CD. I have a Packard Bell laptop that has a pretty basic soundcard so distortion can be a problem when recording mixes and trying to convert vinyl.

I'm not much of a techno-head so finding a solution to this is beyond me. Could I change the soundcard within the laptop (I suspect not) or could I use an external soundcard? I keep saying that I need to ge my vinyl collection onto CD but dont have the get-up-and-go to actually do it.

On the occasions when I have converted tracks from vinyl to CD the quality has been reasonable at best.

I have a Creative Connect external soundcard for my laptop and its works extremely well, the quality is amazing for the £30 i paid for the device. I bought mine from PC world if your interested :thumbsup:

[FuzzY-LogiC]

Stay away from Creative when shopping for a quality soundcard... most people can't hear the difference (incl. me), but if you talk with sounds technicians and ppl working in studios, they will tell you that Soundblaster is NOT the way to go if you want quality over fancyness.

I have a pair of Ortofon Concorde too, and im absolutely loving them

btw, did you guys know that Ortofon is danish?

[Quadrant]

Yes I knew Ortofon is Denmarkian!

[Simcut]

Stay away from Creative when shopping for a quality soundcard... most people can't hear the difference (incl. me), but if you talk with sounds technicians and ppl working in studios, they will tell you that Soundblaster is NOT the way to go if you want quality over fancyness.

I have a pair of Ortofon Concorde too, and im absolutely loving them

btw, did you guys know that Ortofon is danish?

Hmm, SoundBlaster X-Fi in the Music Creation Mode is fantastic!

[Quadrant]

I shall have to buy this to encode my wonderful House collection! The wife shall have to wait.

[Neuro]

I'm planning a purchase of this this summer after I finish exams and everything. Then a rippathon will commence

[Judge Mental]

I've got a wee Creative soundcard that I've got for my laptop, was about £22 or something from Ebuyer, and its flawless, has software to make recording mixes etc easy as pressing a button, and has connections for 5.1 surround sound.

Cracking wee buy, and the sound quality is excellent!