Ortofon Factory Tour Celebrates Danish Company's 100th Anniversary

Ortofon celebrated its 100th anniversary this past September 28th and 29th by inviting its worldwide sales and business partners to a two day event that combined a morning of "future tech" lectures and discussions with an afternoon tour of the company's Nakskov, Denmark headquarters.
The company invited Analogplanet editor Michael Fremer to witness the event and to participate by presenting a half hour PowerPoint presentation outlining where the vinyl market has been over the past 30 years, where it is today and where he expects it to be tomorrow.
This channel will soon present some of the video highlights of the Friday morning technology presentations but it won't include Fremer's PowerPoint presentation because the knucklehead forgot to turn on the video camera.
The PowerPoint presentation will be repeated elsewhere, recorded and presented here a short time from now. Meanwhile, enjoy the factory tour and read about the event in greater detail on the analogPlanet website
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[@analoguecity3454]

Looking at this makes you truly respect and understand what these folks do! As a vinyl guy, I'm very happy these guys do what they do!

[@thegood9]

My a95 is the best Cartridge I've ever heard...so this was WONDERFUL! Thank you Michael!

[@BansheeFifteen]

Enjoyed the video, thank you. I just purchased the 2m Blue (closer to what my pocket book could accept.) It is such a stunning reproduction of the sound. Thank You.

[@johnlynch6248]

I will never again feel bad about paying higher dollar for a great cart. These people at Ortofon are fantastic. Just something special about some ( not all, p......) European manufacturers. Treat their employees great. Rega is another great one. Thanks.

[@lupo631]

Absolute amazing! Thank you very much to take us with you. The video closed a lot of gaps I didn't understand how they produce the cartidges!

[@valuevinyl110]

WOW! I learned so much! It is great to see all this behind the scenes stuff!

[@cobar5334]

Wow! Such amazing precision and real people doing such skilled work

[@pitragroovemaster1262]

I have always been a supporter and buyer of Ortofon ever since the Mc 30 came on the market.

[@kerbyfab]

I’ve always enjoyed my Ortofon Cadenza Black cart. but I now have a new appreciation for the amount of care that goes into manufacturing these precision instruments. Initially it was hard for me to get over the sticker shock, but after seeing all of the steps involved and the equipment needed to produce these, I’m honestly surprised they can offer their carts. @ their current price points. Thanks for sharing!

[@mohankrishnasamy1456]

Support you.... Love you guys and ladies. Bless you all 🙏

[@The_910]

Great video! Thanks Mike.

[@VinylRescue]

Thanks for the great tour! I own a Ortofon MC-3 Turbo that I use in my needle-drops on my channel that I've had for about a year and half now. I love the sound and it's about the lowest price MC cart that has a nude fine line stylus for great detailed sound.

[@vinylcity1599]

Man, I sure missed your video's Michael fremer, love to see inside these factories and work places! Thank you for the upload!

[@paulomontero12]

Love to see more of this kind of stuff. Great!

[@Algabatz]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

[@thehunterofdeath2180]

The best cartridge needle out there 👍😎 thank you for DJ oh listing to your vinyl collection record

[@Diatonic5th]

Great video! It's really interesting to see the manufacturing side of audio. Thanks for posting.

[@musicislife2000]

Dang the danish invented the stock market and now this?! Legendary

[@cobrakill4636]

Nope. The Dutch started the stock market in Amsterdam

[@musicislife2000]

@@cobrakill4636 oh thats right it was the dutch gotcha thanks

[@akyhne]

A Dane invented the modern loudspeaker, though. Far more important, than the stock market 😊 And we have a large, proud list of HIFI speaker manufactures, like Dali, B&O, Dynaudio etc.

[@francochan]

The nerd jokes made me smile. 😂

[@BillyLapTop]

A really excellent video! I love your wit, a four axis CNC made by the Axis. It is wonderful to see how dedicated they are to the quality of their products and how gracious they were to allow open access to their facility. Perhaps next time you visit the name will be on the door, not that it matters.

[@RightWing1]

At 13:56 the material looks great

[@SayUptown]

The 2M Black is my favorite MMC, it wasn't the best mate with my SME V...I still miss it though.

[@09hunterboy8]

wow

[@MrSwedjen]

Col. Rosa Klebb sighting @ 0:37 above cube wall.

[@skunk12]

11:32 Ortofon Rep "Here we are making rubbers." Me: "Dont bother... I never use rubbers." 🤣😂😆

[@julianchamberlain5399]

How do the hide the bass?

[@djbuoy]

what is the first sample about sneaking into your room with records? would love to know where it's from

[@MrSwedjen]

It's either Michael impersonating Jerry Lewis or Jerry Lewis.

[@richardriley4415]

Very interesting. What was the guitar track near the end ?

[@swordfish52]

Doesn't come up on Shazam , Michael ...... Jimmy ...

[@AnalogPlanet]

Lonnie Johnson but I don’t remember the tune. If you don’t know him you should!

[@swordfish52]

Great Wikipedia ...

[@OLDSCHOOLNEVERDIES]

@@AnalogPlanet WEST END BLUES played by some contemporary band

[@geovannilucianomartinezban3518]

ya son los dos discos inteligentes

[@Rancherinaz]

👍👍

[@geovannilucianomartinezban3518]

si logramos comunicarnos con el youtube lo podemos hacer y ya lo hicimos con el dvd

[@Bandit400VC]

Nice Rubbers at 11:59 ;-)

[@eugeniopizzorni]

You LIKE MY JUBILEE 😁😁😁👍👍👍👍

[@rlwings]

After perusing countless forums chalk-full of self-appointed experts, dogmatic opinion and ill-founded certainty, it sure is nice to watch people who actually know what they are doing going about the business of creating the products we 'seem to know' so much about. :)

[@johnsweda2999]

I would like to see the Diamonds being made it's one thing I've not seen anywhere! is it done by machine or by Human the facing, is it just grown into the shape or is it ground by hand? I'm assuming they buy them in they don't make the diamond styli themselves. There is probably one company making it for every manufacture and it does have a bearing what type of diamond is it, not all Diamonds are equal in they're composite, in turn will affect resonance, something you should ask in the future what grade of diamond they use. there shouldn't be an issue using alcohol to clean the stylus it is an epoxy glue and alcohol doesn't dissolve epoxy resin or synthetic resin. getting it on the enamel coating of the wire might be a problem is probably why they advise against it. what type of wire is the coil, does anybody use triangular wire? was it silver or copper wire they were using. I would have thought they would have used sorbothane rubber! in the suspension! what is known for its dampening properties acoustically instead of just plain old rubber don't want to pay the royalties maybe!! what is not so great acoustically. I would have thought it'd be better to inject some expanding open cell foam into the counter lever ends not sure if anybody does this. Can you do an experiment for me Michael, I might have asked I've asked so many people some people say they do it and never get back to me or they never reply. I think the 92 degree angle is wrong! should be set at 88 degrees, you are riding the style the same on 88° as 92° but I believe you will get better results less jitter between the surface of the record and the styli, intern more detail cleaner sound better blacks plus less where to the vinyl. the only issue is depends on the length of arm and type of cartridge you got that the back end maybe!! a bit close to the record surface. you will need to lower the tone arm at the back about 4 mm dependent on the length of arm and your need to increase the weight to its maximum maybe because gravity not in your favour, in turn has a benefit in itself creating less mass on the tonearm. Could you try out Michael and let me know what the results are thanks! try a sibilance test with a test record would be the best test a before and after.

[@vinyljunkie07]

Some are grown and some are laser and machine cut. Namiki is (was?) one of the suppliers of diamond/cantilevers a lot of these brands used. When they stopped producing the born cantilever most manufacturers discontinued a lot of models pretty much confirming the source. I was told by Ortofon they source diamond from Switzerland and Japan. www.ad-na.com/en/product/jewel/product/record.html

[@johnsweda2999]

vinyljunkie07 thanks for the link I will check it out it looks interesting.

[@geovannilucianomartinezban3518]

que los ingenieros capten las ideas de las personas para futuras invenciones asi como hay conectores habidos y por aber

[@shaun9107]

Real Hi Fi I never new that robots made them That groove will always be " MAGIC " Digital is like a middle man , who needs it its spread too far Digital will not work without Analog platform sound wave , Digital is just an argument . Groove , Stylus & Speaker " MAGIC " Records & Tapes I still use them today ! always will be

[@geovannilucianomartinezban3518]

lo que escuche es que los dos discos son interactivos

[@thegrimyeaper]

10:53 Is that the Pro-Ject boss man..?

[@thegrimyeaper]

18:09 Never mind.

[@geovannilucianomartinezban3518]

soy ingeniero y los reciver tienen muchas entradas o fuentes el rca es analogo

[@geovannilucianomartinezban3518]

yo hice una prueba conecte un cd a un zonda en auxuliar y se escucho bien

[@geovannilucianomartinezban3518]

dejen que el cliente elija entre cd o disco porque hay mucha produccion

[@djvartan]

Why didn't you express your negative feelings about their concord range?

[@YPO6]

Factory tours, annoying for the workers but interesting for the viewers.

[@VIDSTORAGE]

When you see this audio equipment being made along with the complexity of it , the bitch factor about high price comes down a bit ....

[@ProstorniAktivista]

And excuse me why are they in the DARK?

[@AnalogPlanet]

The thumbs down is from my decade plus troll imbecile Carl Engebretsen. He’s fixated on me and hates vinyl but can’t stay away....

[@kerbyfab]

Carl must lead a happy and fulfilled life.

[@AnalogPlanet]

KerbyFab if I posted some of his rants you’d get sick....they’ve been coming for a decade...

[@thegrimyeaper]

Imagine if we had all his rants in book form... "Why Don't We Just Go Back To Rotary Phones?" by cengeb.

[@AnalogPlanet]

thegrimyeaper here’s a full rant from Carl about Ortofon: Acompany that has been around for 100 years and only does $15 million is a failure!! Are you really stupid? 100 years of nothing, no growth, no expansion, that's called a FAILURE, no wonder you didn't finish college, you are a dope! Oh so your replacement is 12, you really are a dipstick! A 12 year old can do what you do!!! HAHAHAHAHA, and it took you how many years of writing imaginary sights and sounds, now THAT'S FUNNY .....WHANKER! Even SHURE dropped phono stuff, it's a dead industry, whanker. You probably think the old bag cell phones are ,making a comeback?

[@thegrimyeaper]

WHANKER!!!!

[@jeanphilogene9304]

Bee you tee full

[@KRich408]

Really cool video I was going to say the employees are getting distracted by the tourists and could make mistakes then I was the woman with the Long blue and gold finger nails 🙄🙄 she can't be very productive with those dagger's on her fingers! It's like the Wolverine trying to be a heart surgeon while his spikes are out.

[@maynardewm]

You do get used to them after a while.

[@vcp93]

Actually, if there were no women, there'd be no humans. But "technically" there might be no manufacturering as well. We'd never really know because we wouldn't exist. So there's that...

[@AnalogPlanet]

Frank Black well yes. I realized the ridiculousness of what I said but left it in anyway!

[@jaroslavpodval7460]

TESLA Litovel

[@shazmanbound1496]

I would be annoyed as all hell having tourists at the work place. I wouldn't be able to concentrate at all.

[@chrishoumiller8338]

Is it me, or does anyone else find find Michael Fremer a bit obnoxious?