Over more than 45 years’ experience in audio, Charisma Audio have collected the solid ideas which inspire the design and manufacture of our accessories. Using premium materials, these not only look attractive but also show striking performance.
Charisma Audio phono cartridges are priced reasonably but deliver stunning performance. They all have a semi-open body to avoid cavity resonances. Their sound is musical and natural, with proper balance from top to bottom. Very hard materials with excellent transmission speeds are used for the cantilevers; these include titanium alloy, sapphire and ruby. This reduces resonance in order to improve transparency, transients, imaging and focus.
The first cartridge to employ a premium micro fine line diamond stylus, comparable to the best on the market. And the first to use a ceramic cantilever. Very low 2 Ohm internal impedance, the lowest in the range. Yellow rosewood body.
- Cartridge Weight: 8 g
- Cartridge body: yellow rosewood
- Cantilever: white ceramic
- Stylus: micro fine line contact diamond
- Vertical Tracking Angle: 20 degrees
- Coil: pure iron square coil with custom made alloy wiring
- Output Voltage: 0.25 mV at 3.54 cm/sec.
- Internal Impedance: 4 ohms
- Frequency Response: 20 – 20,000 Hz ± 1 dB
- Channel Balance: better than 0.5 dB
- Channel Separation: better than 30 dB
- Dynamic Compliance: 10 um/mN
- Recommended Loading: 100 – 500 ohms
- Recommended Tracking Force: 1.8 g ± 0.1 g
- Tracking Ability at 315 Hz / 2 g: 70 uM
- Recommended Tonearm Mass: medium
- Break-in Period: 50 hours
