Kuzma CAR-70 Phono Cartridge with Diamond Cantilever and full Sapphire body for Ultimate Rigidity

With a price to match the achievement, this is, by far, the most complete and impressive phono cartridge ever made. -- True Audiophile Mini Review

The CAR-70's design, specifically the sapphire housing and integrated diamond cantilever, is engineered to minimize vibrations and maximize signal accuracy. 

WALLY TOOLS COMMENTS ON THE KUZMA CAR-70 MC CARTRIDGE:

Here at WAM Engineering we are blessed to have many of the very best cartridges pass through our laboratory for our cartridge analysis service. When we care to, we can listen to these cartridges in our main system while controlling for mechanical variables that inevitably exist from unit to unit.

Before listening to this Kuzma CAR70 cartridge, we already knew it was the most mechanically ideal MC cartridge on the market due to its design priority of putting system rigidity at the top of its rank order.

As a result, we were prepared to be impressed.

What I was not prepared for is the unstoppable impulse to listen to all of my records again.

I have never heard a cartridge deliver a lower mechanical noise floor. Absolutely amazing.

Is the price an obscenity? To many, it will be. Unfortunately, the cartridge is such a sensitive instrument that the extra cost necessary to build a better mechanical transcriptor requires specialized materials and highly specialized machining and ablating. As more cartridge manufacturers begin to understand the sensitivity of their own product better they will make better design decisions that put rigidity at a higher position in their rank order of design priorities. ...

A design like this points the way forward, in our opinion. We can’t wait for the market to respond, making such engineering more affordable.

Included in this installation is our austenitic stainless steel corrective shim. The head shell is the WAM

Engineering Colossus.

No, we do not get paid or in any way compensated for this sentiment and we are not a Kuzma dealer.

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Technical data:

• Type: Low Output Moving Coil (MC)
• Cantilever: One-piece diamond (with diamond tip)
• Body: Two-piece solid sapphire housing
• Stylus: Micro Ridge
• Output Voltage: 0.3mV (@3.54 cm/s, 1kHz)
   
• Frequency Response: 10Hz -45 kHz
• Channel Separation: > 30dB (@ 1kHz)
• Channel Balance: < 1.0 dB (@ 1kHz)
• Tracking Force: 2.1 g (recommended)
• Compliance: 10 x 10 (minus 6) cm/dyne
• Internal Impedance: 6 Ohm
• Load Impedance: > 100 Ohm
• Weight: 17 g

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