Charisma Audio writes: “We just introduced a new affordable killer cartridge named ECO. We believe it is the best value for the money cartridge for US$ 795 It employs an aluminum body, a super elliptical stylus, and a white ceramic cantilever. Yes, the cantilever is made of ceramic. From what we know, we are not the only cartridge maker which uses ceramic for cantilever.”
Specifications:
- Cartridge weight: 11 g
- Cartridge Body: aluminum
- Cantilever: white ceramic
- Stylus: super elliptical nude diamond
- Vertical Tracking Angle: 20 degrees
- Coil: pure iron crossed-coil with OFC copper
- Output Voltage: 0.38 mV at 3.54 cm/sec.
- Internal Impedance: 8 ohms
- Break-in Period: 30 hours
- Frequency Response: 20 – 20,000 Hz ± 1 dB
- Channel Balance: better than 0.5 dB
- Channel Separation: better than 25 dB
- Dynamic Compliance: 12 um/mN
- Recommended Loading: 100 – 1,000 ohms
- Recommended Tracking Force: 1.9 g ± 0.1 g
- Tracking Ability at 315 Hz / 2 g: 80 uM
- Recommended Tonearm Mass: medium