Soundsmith Otello High Output Cartridge
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Product Overview & Specifications
The Otello is Soundsmith's entry level Fixed Coil design, realizing an affordable pathway into the world of high-performance cartridges. Built by hand like all Soundsmith cartridges, the Otello provides a perfect balance of tone and resolution at a great price. The result is a cartridge that is at ease with any type of music. Just slightly warmer than other Soundsmith designs, Otello yields a richness of timbre that is utterly beguiling with a level of speed and dynamic range that no other cartridge in this price. The result? A wonderful design that gives the warmth of MM and the light-footedness of Moving Iron design.
- Cartridge Type: Fixed Coil
- Output: High
- Available As Dual Coil Mono: Yes
- Stylus: Elliptical Titanium Bonded, 0.20mm Round
- Radius of curvature: 6 x 17 m
- Cantilever: Aluminum Alloy
- Recommended tracking force: 12mN / 1.2 gm (high), 14mN / 1.4 gm (medium)
- Effective tip mass: 0.50 mg
- Compliance: 28 m/mN (high), 22 m/mN (medium)
- Frequency response: 20-20,000 Hz ± 2.5 dB
- Channel separation (stereo only): 1000 Hz >24 dB, 50-15,000 >20 dB
- Channel difference: <1.8 dB (Stereo), <1.0 dB (Mono)
- Output voltage: >2.12 mV
- Cartridge weight: 6.8 grams
- Loading: 47 k
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Soundsmith Otello High Output Cartridge
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