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Designer:
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Jonathan Carr
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B uilder:
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Yoshinori Mishima
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T ype:
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Medium weight, medium compliance, low-impedance moving coil cartridge
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Stylus:
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Lyra-designed long-footprint variable-radius line-contact nude diamond (3um?70um profile, block dimensions 0.08 x 0.12 x 0.5mm), slot-mounted
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Cantilever system:
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Diamond-coated solid boron rod with short one-point wire suspension, directly mounted into cartridge body via high-pressure knife-edge system
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Coils:
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2-layer deep, 6 N high-purity copper, chemically-purified high purity iron X-shaped former, 4.2 ohm self impedance, 11uH inductance
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Output voltage:
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0.56 mV@5 cm/sec., zero to peak, 45 degrees (CBS test record, other test records may alter results)
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Frequency range:
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10 Hz-50 kHz
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Channel separation:
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35 dB or better at 1 kHz
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Compliance:
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Approx. 12 X10 cm/dyne at 100 Hz
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Vertical tracking angle:
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20 degrees
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Cartridge body:
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Multi-material (titanium, duralumin, bronze, stainless steel) self-clamping construction with reduced-surface higher-pressure headshell contact area, predominately non-parallel shaping, phase-interference resonance-controlling mechanisms, body threaded for mounting screws
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Cartridge mounting screws:
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2.6 mm 0.45 pitch JIS standard Cartridge weight (without stylus cover): 9.2g
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Distance from mounting holes to stylus tip:
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9.52mm
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Recommended tracking force:
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1.68-1.78g (1.72 g recommended)
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Recommended load directly into MC phono input:
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104 ohm-887ohm (determine by listening, or follow detailed guidelines in owner's manual)
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Recommended load via step-up transformer:
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5-15 ohm (connect step-up transformer's output to 10kohm-47kohm MM-level RIAA input, preferably via short, low-capacitance cable)
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Recommended tonearm:
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High-quality pivoted or linear (tangential) tonearm with rigid bearing(s), adjustable anti-skating force, preferably VTA adjustment
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