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Yes, this line of early 80s Ortofon SUTs was sold either separate or with Ortofon MC pickups - T-3000 with MC3000, T-5000 with MC5000, T-7500 with MC7500...
https://www.ortofon.com/ortofon-%C2%B4000-series-p-690
They were voiced to maintain a maximum detail these pickups were able to extract - at the time these were the pinnacle of Ortofon line. It happened that T-3000 and T-5000 were picked up by Japanese audiophiles as a more popular SPU option than SUTs Ortofon specifically designed for SPU. I tried some other Ortofon units that were recommended, like the ones with Joergen Schou transformers, they were very good but not as ultimate.
This is all to my aged ears, so obviously other people can hear different. My feeling is that there is a good synergy between these, especially that T-3000/5000 lean a bit towards forensic but very musical presentation that keeps SPU musicality, timbral richness and keeps every detail.
In T-5000 I had, I removed a small resistor Ortofon designers placed to match perfectly impedance of MC5000, otherwise I think the cans are the same as in T-3000. If I remember correctly, they should be silver wire wound on toroid cores. This would cost a kidney today.
I didn't try Hashimoto HM-7 but the close HM-X was way bellow.
The only SUT that beat these with SPU in my system was Tango MCT-999.
Originally Posted by anubisgrau
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