London Decca Super Gold cartridge - low hours, priced to sell
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Ships from | Nashville, TN, 37206 |
Ships to | United States |
Package dimensions | unspecified |
Shipping carrier | USPS |
Shipping cost | Free |
Original accessories | Box, Manual |
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Considered by many to be among the biggest bargains in audio even at full retail price, this London Decca Super Gold has less than 20 hours of total use and was just examined and recalibrated by its designer/builder, John Wright (see invoice image dated July 29, 2020). It is in 100% operational and cosmetic condition. The Super Gold is the liveliest and most explosively dynamic cartridge I've ever heard. Lots of info and opinions are readily available online.
I will include insured Priority Mail shipping to any US destination at asking price. In an attempt to anticipate the inevitable 'why are you selling'-type questions I'll say here quite simply that I have a surplus of gear and a shortage of cash. Happy to answer other questions to the best of my ability.
The Super Gold has no long cantilever and no rubbery fulcrum point to absorb, dissipate and smear the vital musical energy. Instead, the stylus is attached directly to a magnetically active metal support just a few microns thick which passes through the centre of the main generating coil positioned about 1 millimeter above the stylus. The stylus motion is not inverted or transformed to a smaller value as in long cantilever designs. Flowing from this immediate positive-direct scanning of the groove is a breathtaking, lifelike quality. The listener tends to feel that the performing artists are actually in the same room, with a startling, palpable presence.
The Super Gold uses a line-contact, polished, grain-oriented diamond stylus similar to the Jubilee’s, mated to less costly generator coils and housing. If you have never heard the $3,000 London Decca Jubilee, you may well think the Super Gold is the world’s best cartridge. Subjectively, it offers 90% of Jubilee’s unrivaled musical realism.
Specifications:
Stylus: extended line-contact
Frequency range: 20Hz to 40kHz
Output: 5mV
VTF: 1.8g
Weight: 6.7g
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