KLEOS

Feature :
Designer : Jonathan Carr
Builder : Yoshinori Mishima (final build, testing), Akiko Ishiyama (preliminary build)
Type : Medium weight, medium compliance, low-impedance moving coil cartridge
Frequency range : 10Hz ~ 50kHz
Channel separation : 35dB or better at 1kHz
Cantilever system : Solid boron rod with Lyra-designed long footprint line-contact stylus (3um x 75um) and one-point suspension, directly mounted to cartridge body
Coil : 6-N high-purity copper, 5.4ohms internal impedance, 9.0uH inductance Output voltage: 0.5mV@5cm/sec. (CBS test record, other test records may alter results)
Compliance : Approx. 12x10 cm/dyne at 100Hz
Vertical tracking angle : 20 degrees
Cartridge body : One-piece machining from solid 7075 alloy billet, with reduced-surface higher-pressure headshell contact area, and resonance-controlling mechanism
Cartridge weight (without stylus cover) : 8.8g
Recommended tracking force : 1.6 ~ 1.75g
Recommended load directly into MC phono input : 91ohms ~ 47kohm (determine by listening, or follow detailed guidelines included in user manual)
Recommended load via step-up transformer : 5 ~ 15ohm (step-up transformer's output must be connected to 47kohm MM-level RIAA input)
Recommended tonearm : High-quality pivoted or linear tangential) tone arm with rigid bearing(s), adjustable anti-skating force, preferably VTA