Product details
The SPU #1 E is a remarkable embodiment of the classic Moving Coil technology, offering an ideal solution for playing back a wide range of stereo recordings, from the early classics to modern and contemporary pieces, with an outstanding price-to-performance ratio.
Crafted with precision, the housing of the SPU #1 cartridges is constructed from a combination of grinded wood and resin composite and features High Purity Copper armature windings and terminal leads, ensuring pristine signal transmission.
The SPU #1 E model takes sound reproduction to the next level with its elliptical stylus profile, providing a more detailed sound reproduction and expansive imaging.
Compatibility
With their universal connector, the SPU #1 models ensure the ability to mount the units in a wider range of tonearms with universal (SME) mount, e.g., the Ortofon Reference tonearms. The combination of SPU #1, the ST-7 Moving Coil transformer and Ortofon Reference tonearms gives a supreme experience. Sonically, the SPU #1 models are genuine SPUs, known for their full-bodied and powerful music image, minimum of intermodulation distortion, and an impressive channel separation, a perfect solution for the playback of stereo recordings.
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Channel balance at 1 kHz1.5 dB
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Output voltage at 1 kHz, 5cm/sec0.18 mV
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Channel seperation at 1 kHz20 dB
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Channel seperation at 15 kHz10 dB
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Frequency response 20 Hz - 20 kHz3 dB
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Tracking ability at 315Hz at recommended tracking force60 µm
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Compliance, dynamic, lateral10 µm/mN
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Stylus typeSpherical
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Stylus tip radiusR 18 µm
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Tracking force range3.0-5.0 g (30-50 mN)
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Tracking force, recommended4.0 g (40 mN)
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Tracking angle20°
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Internal impedance, DC resistance2 ohm
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Recommended load impedance10 ohm
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Coil wire materialHigh Purity Copper (OFC)
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Cartridge body materialGround wood and resin composite
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Cartridge colourBlack matte
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Cartridge weight28 g