MusiKraft started business making precision-machined metal shells for the classic Denon DL-103 cartridge, but soon found themselves selling shells with stock DL-103s installed, and shell-only sales ended in late 2019. This cartridge gets more of that correct than any other cartridge I've heard." (Vol.44 No.12 WWW)Īudio MusiKraft First Series DL-103: $989$1529 ★ Nevertheless, not only did MF find that the Audio Relax was a superb tracker he also wrote that "Velvet Fog" Mel Tormé had never been better served on record than through the EX1000: "The sonically sensual vocal presentation oozes 'velvet' without sounding at all soft, warm, or muffled, nor does it sacrifice transient articulation. The top-of-the-line cartridge from Japanese company ZOOT Communication has a higher output voltage and a higher output impedance than typical moving coils. Yet the PC-1 Coda impressed him as a "masterfully voiced, low-coloration cartridge that worked well with all musical genres." (Vol.42 No.4 WWW) Compliance specs aren't supplied for the 12.7gm PC-1 Coda, but the tracking-force range is given as 2≢.2gm MF found the lower number insufficient and declared the cartridge's tracking capabilities only "moderately good" at best. Its body is made from an alloy of aluminum, magnesium, and silicon, plated first in nickel and then in chrome. Manufactured for Air Tight by Yoshio Matsudaira of My Sonic Lab, the PC-1 Coda MC cartridge has a very low impedance of 1.7 ohms and an output of 0.5mV, the latter higher than the moving coil norm.
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