Jan Allaerts MC2 Finish Cartridge

$9,999.00

DETAILS

When Jan Allaerts makes a cartridge it's a special process that can take up to a year. As any MC2 Finish owner will tell you, it's worth the wait. There is no other cartridge we've heard which has the balance of impeccable technical performance and absolutely beguiling musicality. Dead quiet groove noise, extreme dynamics and the utmost of detail are matched by the pure naturalness of every note. This is a cartridge with no trade-offs. It is all things to all people. Hear the sound of the master tape.

It was back in 1978 that the company was founded by J.Allaerts. At first the company lended its services to the retailers by doing repairs on various audio and video hardware.

Over the years, the company focused more and more to the field of repair and maintenance
of micro mechanical parts on several parts of cartridge systems.

By doing so an enormous amount of know-how could be gathered but moreover
all these special techniques could be integrated into an consistent insight.

So the company soon got renowned worldwide for its top level moving coil cartridges
competing with the very best available.

Specifications:

Casing	Manually milled and drilled aluminium
Cover	0.2 mm thick,coated with 24 ct. gold foil
Color	Anodized in gold colored finish (scratch resistant.)
Terminals	Soft iron, shaped by grinding and milling
Connectorpins	1.3 x 20 mm, 14 ct. solid gold pins
Screw bushes	2,5 mm brass treaded bushes mounded into casing
Magnet	Permanent. 5 Cat : rare earth magnet)
Coil	2 mm x 2 mm Teflon Type c 1004
Coil windings	20 micron gold handwinding wire
Stylus holder	Solid boron rod : 0.3 mm x 7 mm
Stylus tip	TIP FG S HIGH TECH diamond,highly polished finish.
Shock absorption	High Tech rubber, 100 SCHOR
Tension wire	Steel wire spring, code 1007
Coil impedance	32 Ohm
Load impedance	845 Ohm
Load capacity	150 pF
Stylus pressure	1.8 Grams, (Max Tolerance 0.05 Gram)
Output Voltage	200 µV
Max tracing capacity	400 µmm
Channel separation	70 dB at 100 Hz
60 dB at 1 Khz
70 dB at 20 Khz
Frequency range	3 Hz to 100 Khz
Total THD %	0.1 %
Total unit weight	10 Grams (incl. socket screws)