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Design Concept

Utilising a double ring magnet for a moving coil cartridge has produced six unique design improvements:

  • Just two coils within 'double' ring magnets
  • No yokes
  • No magnetic irregularities
  • Coils at the crux of the magnetic focus
  • Intimate coil/magnet coupling
  • Brilliantly, elegantly simple design

Technical Details:

  1. No yokes

    The ring magnets and freedom from yokes enable the coils to be placed DIRECTLY WITHIN THE MAGNETIC FIELD. No just close, but literally right inside. The detail is never masked by rising dynamics and sharp transients.

  2. Anti resonance cartridge body
    The solid non-resonant body with 'deeply cut-away sides' utilises both shape and material to create a totally inert environment for the eletromagnetic elements. These elements are more effectively insulated from arm, turntable and tracing noises, further reducing any tonal colouration of the music and lessening the instrusion of distracting mechanical noises.

  3. Twin 'silver' coils on the cantilever fulcrum
    Minimises dynamic mass and mechanical impedance, enabling instant, accurate reaction to every groove detail, including the ability to handle massive transients without overshoot or break-up.

  4. Push pull damping
    A special compound has been meticulously designed and fabricated to provide total stylus/coil alignment and control. Its non-sensitivity to temperature change keeps the damping coefficient stable and improves tracing accuracy.

  5. Special alloy core for coil assembly
    Increases sensitivity by 20dB, improves signal to noise ratio eliminating a usual source of distortion.

  6. Low mass tip
    Ogura PA (3 x 3 micrometers) tip shares many of the advantages of the flagship MC cartridge "The Temper V". Its function is to reproduce the character of the original recorded sound - not add or substract its own deficiencies.

SPECIFICATIONS*
Physical
Body Solid aluminum, no-resonant body with deeply cut-away sides
Cantilever 0.3 mm diameter solid boron
Stylus Ogura PA (3 x 30 µm) solid diamond
Core/Coils High grade permalloy square core with pure silver coils
Magnet Samarium cobalt
Weight 7.8 g
Electrical
Output voltage 0.4mV (3.54cm/second, 1 KHz)
Internal impedance 10 ohms
Frequency response 10Hz - 20Hz +1.5dB
20kHz - 40 kHz + 2dB
Channel separation > 27 dB, 200Hz - 1 kHz
Channel balance < 0.5dB, 1 kHz
Dynamic
Tracking ability at 315 Hz using a tracking force of 1.8g > 70 µm
Dynamic compliance 12 x 10 to the minus 6cm/dyne
Set-up Instructions
Recommended loading > 10 Ohms
Recommended tracking force 2 g
Optimum working temperate 23 degrees Celsius
Break-in period 30 hours

* Specifications are subject to change without prior notice.

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