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"The LP Gear .3x.7 elliptical on the carbon cantilever is what I currently have on my AT3600. Sounds utterly fantastic considering the price,
so much so I sold my low hour 2M Blue. I much prefer the overall sound of the AT."1
● Carbon fiber technology for remarkable nuance and tonal complexity
● Harmonically exquisite, refractive, large multidimensional soundstage
● Super Carbon Fiber cantilever for excellent tactile acuity to grooves
● Spectra Elliptical diamond for very fine tracing accuracy
● Diamond tip r/R radii: 8 × 18 µm (.0003 × .0007 inch)
● Codeveloped and designed by Audio-Technica with LP GEAR®
- Product Info
LP GEAR CARBON FIDELITY CFN6500LE STYLUS
- Music that makes you want to listen.®Listen to the new voice of music. Carbon fiber composites offer 10 times the strength of steel at half the weight. Codeveloped and designed with LP GEAR by Audio-Technica's best engineers, the new Carbon Fidelity CFN6500LE Spectra Elliptical stylus benefits from the latest quality parts and materials technology featuring a super carbon fiber cantilever that seriously upgrade performance in comparison with existing N6516-type cartridges from Sony, Denon, Dual, JVC and many others. The updated design, tight specifications, Twin-Flux™ magnets, high-quality moving system fulcrum and radial damping ring allied with a Spectra elliptical diamond tip produce music that makes you want to listen.
Mastered to illuminate against lofty cartridges beyond the economics of most listeners, the CFN6500LE stylus touches and endears the more you listen. You won't want to go back to your underperforming or pricey cartridge. You'll hear, feel and sense the music exquisitely rendered — harmonically full-bodied, refractive and refreshingly crystal clean with luminous detail spatially radiating with realness. You'll experience remarkable note clarity, projection and nuanced tonal complexity previously unheard and unappreciated.2
Carbon Fidelity CFN6500LE Stylus Details
- Type: Moving Magnet VM Dual Magnet Stereo
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,5cm/sec.: 2.5 mV
- Channel balance at 1kHz: 2.5 dB or less
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: over 18 dB
- Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz
- Stylus type: 0.3 × 0.7 mil Spectra Elliptical diamond
- Cantilever: Super Fidelity Carbon Fiber3
- Tracking force range: 1.8 - 3.5 g
- Tracking force recommended: 2.5 g (25 mN)
- Color: Black, Silver, Indigo
- Recommended break-in duration: 30 hours
- Color: Black, Silver, Indigo
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Footnote 1: Quoted from the educational and "must-read" discussion regarding "Am I nuts or do cheap conicals sound good?".
Footnote 2: A high resolution system allows full experience of the nuanced tonal complexity offered by the Carbon Fidelity CF6500LE cartridge.
Footnote 3: Carbon fiber composites offer 10 times the strength of steel at half the weight. Each producer's carbon fiber differs from those of its competitors, and the processing details are considered to be intellectual property. The special carbon fiber used in the Carbon Fidelity cartridges and styli is patiently and expertly considered for its signature characteristics to bring out the subtleties and finesse of music extracted from the grooves of records and LPs. For carbon fiber info see: "The making of carbon fiber".
