Michell Audio CUSIS M Moving Coil Phono Cartridge

Michell Audio

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THE WORLD'S MOST ICONIC TURNTABLES

Michell creates reference class vinyl playback systems for people who love music.

Owning a Michell turntable allows you to experience your music as the artist intended.

We aim to give our customers high-quality, reliable products that never detract from the music.

Using premium materials and modern manufacturing techniques to create your new turntable, you can rest assured that your vinyl collection is in safe hands.

 

Michell Design Philosophy

The task of a turntable is simple.

The design of a turntable is not!

At audio frequencies, the arm should be kept locked above the groove, without any extraneous motion relative to the cartridge. And the groove should be dragged at a constant angular speed underneath the stylus.

This means that over the whole frequency band of 10Hz up to 20kHz and beyond, the whole loop made by record, platter, bearing, (sub)chassis, arm plate, tonearm, and cartridge body should behave in an utterly rigid and non-resonant fashion.

Any flexing of the same dimensions as the microscopic undulations in the groove detracts from sonic fidelity.

At lower-than-audio frequencies, the arm should be made able to freely follow the groove’s warps and excentricities, so as not to damage LP or cartridge, and this without inducing any spurious signals into the cartridge’s generator.

Only when these demands are fulfilled can the stylus trace the actual information embedded in the record’s groove walls.

A simple task, you said? A simple task it is not!

 

Description

Michell Audio CUSIS M Moving Coil Phono Cartridge

 

CUSIS MC Cartridges
Michell are delighted to introduce their own range of reference class moving coil cartridges which have been designed from the ground up to uncover details in your favourite music that have previously gone unheard.
INTRODUCTION
All of the Cusis cartridges share the same moving coil design. At the heart of the cartridge is a samarium-cobalt magnet which is combined with pure iron to create a very stable magnetic field within the cartridge. 30μ pure copper wire is used to precision wind the cartridge coils onto an ultra-lightweight armature, which is mounted onto a specially designed damper.
 
The damper has been specifically designed to give the stylus assembly the perfect support, which ensures the stylus tracks the groove precisely. 
 
The number of coils, resultant output and body material, have all been optimised for each model’s stylus assembly, to give the best possible audio output.
 
The construction of the cartridge has been carefully designed to eliminate unwanted vibration and resonance. Each cartridge has a large aluminium chassis to which all the parts are affixed. This chassis is designed to absorb unwanted vibration and give a rigid platform to mount the cartridge parts.
 
The body materials, shapes and exterior patterns have also been designed to further reduce vibration and resonance, resulting in truly unrivalled levels of detail and neutrality.
CUSIS M
 
Our flagship reference class phono cartridge, combines truly unrivalled levels of detail with a completely neutral presentation, so all you hear is the music!
 
Features:
  • Ultra-precise Microline stylus
  • Boron Cantilever
  • Reduced coil mass
  • Class leading frequency response
  • Large aluminium chassis
  • Carbon loaded, resonance dampening body