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Gold Note Donatello MC Cartridge Red
Donatello MC Cartridge Red (High Output)
The idea behind the new Donatello MC cartridge was to engineer the best sounding cartridge with solid machined aluminium body, light enough to be handled by every tone-arms. The results exceeded expectations. After two years of continuous research, here is Donatello: a sophisticated, computer designed body made of machined aluminium. Weighing only 7gram, it’s perfectly damped and firmly blocked to help the cantilever achieve the best tracking.
Donatello’s ultra rigid cantilever handles a high precision Micro Elliptical diamond exclusively developed in collaboration with Adamant-Namiki and designed for top audio performance. As our flagship cartridges, Donatello’s diamond tip is mechanically inserted and blocked into a long, stiffened aluminium cantilever, handled in a special titanium telescopic pipe to increase structural rigidity.
There’s more: like our top models, Donatello features long gold-plated pin connectors designed to connect perfectly with arm cinches, reducing energy dispersion and improving grounding for an ideal music background that will let you enjoy even the smaller details in your music Donatello Series feature high internal impedance levels, so that they can be easily matched with any active phono preamp MM and even correctly set-up MC ones, without the need of any Step-Up transformer
Donatello Red SPECIFICATIONS:
Typology: MC High Output Phono Cartridge Output level: 1.8mV
Frequency response: 10-35000Hz
Impedance: 140Ω
Suggested load: 47KΩ
Compliance: 12×10-6cm/dyne
Channel separation: > 24dB
Channel balance: < 1db
Suggested tracking weight: 1.8 to 2.1g Cantilever: Aluminum
Diamond: Micro Elliptical
Coil Wire: Copper
Magnet: Samarium-Cobalt
Mounting hole diamond distance: 9mm
Mass: 7 grams
Body: Duraluminium
“The made in Florence, Italy Donatello Gold moving coil cartridge is easy to recommend at and beyond its $1000 price point. I can’t imagine anyone buying it would be disappointing based upon expectations at this price point and well beyond it. The price is, indeed, right! In fact it’s downright righteous!”
-Michael Fremer With the Donatello Gold MC Cartridge Gold Note Plays “The Price Is Right” (Revised) | Analog Planet
1 review for Gold Note Donatello MC Cartridge Red
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Paul –
I’m very pleased with this Gold Note Donatello Red high output MC cartridge. After only 20 hours play, I feel it’s already exceeded my expectations, and surpasses others in a similar price range. In fact I’d go so far as to say it’ll give some significantly higher priced MC’s a run for their money. The micro elliptical stylus tracks beautifully, and provides a realistic wide open sound-stage, with plenty of warmth and detail. I can’t wait to hear how it sounds after 40 to 60 hours! It can only get better, which at this point seems hard to believe!