Gold Note Vasari Shibata MM Cartridge
VASARI SHIBATA MM CARTRIDGE FROM GOLD NOTE
Gold Note of Italy has announced the release of a new member of the Vasari cartridges family, the Gold Note Vasari Shibata.
Designed, as the name suggests, by Mr Shibata in the 70s, this MM cartridge features a peculiar shape of the stylus, which is basically an evolution of the elliptical shape with extra special cuts on one end creating a hybrid asymmetrical shape.
GOLD NOTE VASARI SHIBATA
The new Vasari Shibata, with its special stylus, allows for an increase of the total contact surface area with a reduction of total pressure into the vinyl groove. Gold Note says that the result is that the Vasari Shibata can produce a “nearly perfect playback reaching all areas of the vinyl groove but reducing the wear of both the record and the diamond”.
VASARI GOLD & RED
The Vasari cartridge is also available in the two original models, the Gold made of a duralumin body and the Red made of a special ultra-damping photopolymer body. Both feature an output level of 4mV. You can read the HiFi PiG review of them here from 2017.
SPECIFICATIONS
TYPE MM Phono Cartridge
OUTPUT LEVEL 4mV
FREQUENCY RESPONSE 10-30000Hz
IMPEDANCE 500Ω
INDUCTANCE 500mH
CHANNEL SEPARATION > 25dB
SUGGESTED TRACKING WEIGHT 2g
CANTILEVER Aluminium
SUGGESTED LOAD 47kΩ
COMPLIANCE 10×10-6cm/dyne
DIAMOND Shibata
DIAMOND SIZE 3.5 x 20μm
COIL WIRE Copper
MAGNET Alnico
MOUNTING HOLE DIAMOND DISTANCE 9mm
WEIGHT 9.5g
BODY Duraluminium alloy
GOLD NOTE VASARI SHIBATA PRICE
The Gold Note Vasari Shibata MM Cartridge is available at an RRP of 690€.
HiFi Pig Says: We do enjoy Gold Note cartridges, looking forward to hearing what the Gold Note Vasari Shibata MM Cartridge can do.
