Segno Maya Moving Coil Cartridge
SEGNO MAYA MOVING COIL CARTRIDGE LAUNCHED
The Segno Maya is a new moving coil cartridge design incorporating several features chosen to preserve dynamic range while delivering accurate tone.
SEGNO is an item of musical notation which instructs a musician to repeat a passage starting from this symbol.
SEGNO MAYA MOVING COIL CARTRIDGE
At its heart is a quad of hand wound, 5N (99.999%) pure silver coils mounted on a square permalloy former. This assembly is suspended in a precisely focussed field produced by a rare earth, Samarium Cobalt magnet.
The manufacturer says they prefer the tonal quality produced by this type of generator over the now more commonly used Neodymium (NdFeB) type magnets. While an NdFeB magnet might produce a stronger field than an equivalent SmCo magnet, it’s the way these respective magnets replenish their field after inducing a signal in a coil that determines the sonic differences between the magnet types.
TITANIUM CANTILEVER
A precision ground, fine line profile diamond is mounted into a Titanium cantilever which couples the groove modulation to the generator. Titanium is an extremely stiff material to deploy as a tubular cantilever & doesn’t impart the pronounced resonant characteristics that Aluminium or Boron often will. The stereo output from the generator is delivered by the silver wire to the cartridge pins.
The generator assembly is mounted in an extremely strong, aluminium body, anodised to a dark blue colour reminiscent of the pigments produced by the Maya people of Central America.
SEGNO MAYA MOVING COIL CARTRIDGE SPECIFICATION AND PRICING
The UK RRP of the Maya MC cartridge is £ 999.95, Distribution of SEGNO cartridges is by Pure Sound.
HiFi PiG Says: An interesting use of different materials in this new cartridge.
