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Sonus gold/Blue

HifiTommy "elliptically" (sorry) mentioned Sonus... not strictly MM but MI (moving iron.) These were among the first line contact styli. The MI design inherently has slightly less moving mass than MM; this in combination with a short cantilever helped push the resonance Elison mentions above 20 kHz and it was left relatively undamped. They tracked quite well and weren't super-critical about VTA. Also the coils were relatively low impedance compared to the usual MM, making preamp and cable matching less critical.

The result was not a "warm" cartridge by any means, but instead "detailed" and very open sounding while avoiding the shrillness of some early MC designs (can you say Blue Point?) I wish someone would make replacement styli. I'd buy several for the bodies I still have!


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