Created out of the desire to make a very high performance design at an affordable price, the Carmen mk II was crafted to have unparalleled purity of tone and ultra-smooth presentation. Just slightly lush with a well-developed midrange, the Carmen is surprisingly pleasing and will seduce you into long, late listening sessions. The Carmen features a 2 year warranty to the original owner. The stylus used is a large part of what makes it special; an ultra-low mass occlusion free nude diamond cut and polished into a true hyper-elliptical shape. The combination of low tip mass and the Fixed Coil design gives the Carmen a tremendous resolution advantage over MC designs selling for more than twice the price. Housed in a handmade solid Ebony case, the Carmen delivers. Also available in dual-coil mono. Specs Type: • Fixed Coil / Moving Iron Mount: • Standard ½” Stylus: • Elliptical Nude, 0.12 mm square Radius of Curvature: • 6 x 17 µm Cantilever: • Aluminum Alloy Recommended Tracking Force: • 1.3 – 1.6 g Standard (Medium Compliance) • 1.0 – 1.2 g (Special Order High Compliance) Effective Tip Mass: • 0.35 mg Compliance: • 22 µm/mN (Medium Compliance) • 28 µm/mN (High Compliance) Frequence Response: • 15 – 45,000 Hz ± 2.0 dB Channel Separation @ 1000 Hz: • > 26 dB • N/A (Mono version) Channel Separation @ 50 – 15,000 Hz: • > 20 dB • N/A (Mono version) Channel Difference: • < 1.6 dB • < 1.0 dB (Mono version) Output Voltage @ 5cm/sec: • > 2.12 mV (HIGH) DC Resistance (DCR): • 680Ω Coil Inductance per channel: • 190 mH Suggested Preamp Gain: • 38 – 44 dB Cartridge Weight: • 9.20 g (ES series) Recommended Load Resistance: • ≥ 47kΩ Recommended Load Capacitance: • n/a
