Soundsmith Aida Cartridge

The Aida employs a single crystal Ruby Cantilever and our Optimized Contour Line Contact Stylus; we did this to resolve the challenges of playing the inner grooves with the same level of confidence as the outer. How did we do this? The unique stylus shape of our OCL stylus has a “sharper” playing surface on the faceted diamond, allowing it to ride easily in the groove modulations of even the most difficult passages and high frequency information that other cartridges simply cannot trace. The result - a truly superb cartridge, surpassing top MC designs with air, focus and sound staging no cartridge at this price should be able to achieve.

Specs

• Cartridge Type: Fixed Coil
• Output: High
• Available As Dual Coil Mono: Yes
• Stylus: Contact Line Nude, 0.100mm SQ
• Radius of curvature: OCL (Optimized Contour Contact Line)
• Cantilever: Ruby
• Recommended tracking force: 10mN / 1.0 gm (high), 13mN / 1.3 gm (medium)
• Effective tip mass: 0.30 mg
• Compliance: 28 μm/mN (high), 22 μm/mN (medium)
• Frequency response: 20-20,000 Hz ± 2.5 dB
• Channel separation (stereo only): 1000 Hz >30 dB, 50-15,000 >20 dB
• Channel difference: <1.0 dB (Stereo), <1.0 dB (Mono)
• Output voltage (Aida): 2.12 mV
• Cartridge weight: 6.8 grams
• Loading (Aida): ≥ 47 kΩ