Soundsmith Sussurro MKII Cartridge

Soundsmith Sussurro MKII CartridgeDESCRIPTION The Sussurro MKII ~ critical design decisions, realized. Lowest internal mass. Best damping. Esoteric stylus and cantilever. Inspired by Frank Schrder, designed and individually hand made by Peter Ledermann, Soundsmiths Sussurro is a cartridge designed to specifically address the most intricate and critical issues of cartridge design. The new Sussurro MKII has a newly designed moving iron element to reduce moving mass by 70%. The resulting

DESCRIPTION

The Sussurro MKII ~ critical design decisions, realized. Lowest internal mass. Best damping. Esoteric stylus and cantilever.

Inspired by Frank Schröder, designed and individually hand made by Peter Ledermann, Soundsmith‘s Sussurro is a cartridge designed to specifically address the most intricate and critical issues of cartridge design. The new Sussurro MKII has a newly designed moving iron element to reduce moving mass by 70%. The resulting extremely low stored inertia, with a newly engineered damping system and innovative energy distribution path, allows proper coupling into the tone arm. So what does all this mean?? Low jitter. Jitter? You probably thought that was a term reserved for digital systems. Not so. Stylus jitter is responsible for loss of detail, and making a cartridge sound, well, like a cartridge.

All Soundsmith cartridges are available in true DUAL MONO as well.

SPECIFICATIONS

• STYLUS: Contact Line Nude, 0.100mm SQ
• RADIUS OF CURVATURE: OCL (Optimized Contour Contact Line) SELECTED
• CANTILEVER: Ruby

• RECOMMENDED TRACKING FORCE: 1.8 to 2.2 Grams

• EFFECTIVE TIP MASS:  0.30 mg
• COMPLIANCE: 10μm/mN (low compliance)
• FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 20-20,000 Hz ± 1.0 dB
• CHANNEL SEPARATION (STEREO ONLY):  1000 Hz >34 dB 50-15,000 >25 dB
• CHANNEL DIFFERENCE:  <0.5 dB (Stereo) <1.0 dB (Mono)
• OUTPUT VOLTAGE:  0.4 mV
• CARTRIDGE WEIGHT: 12.2 Grams
• LOADING: ≥ 470 Ω