Touraj Moghaddam, CEO and Founder, of Vertere Acoustics has a protracted observe file of innovation within the turntable class going again to the Roksan Xerxes; one of the crucial in style British high-end turntables of the Eighties. Their entry-level DG-1S is among the most progressive turntables at the moment out there, however it solely represents the primary tier of their merchandise.
Vertere has launched the brand new XtraX transferring coil cartridge ($6,499) and Darkish Sabre transferring magnet cartridge ($1,599). Each cartridges might be out there from the top of October, claiming to supply important enhancements over their predecessors, which is able to now sit beneath them within the Vertere cartridge vary.
What makes XtraX particular
XtraX follows Vertere’s massively in style Mystic transferring coil cartridge and improves upon it in each space. Decrease tip mass, a stiffer, sooner cantilever hooked up to a really low mass cross coil in a time-constant magnetic – a mix recognized internally as “Direct Drive” – delivers a extremely musical, excessive definition, and highly effective, partaking efficiency. Its purple shade makes no distinction to the efficiency.
XtraX MC Options
- The physique is precision CNC machined from strong aluminium alloy and exhausting anodised.
- Threaded physique to simply accept the provided chrome steel thumb screws for proper coupling of the cartridge physique to the tonearm headshell.
- Three particularly designed contact factors CNC machined into the highest of the physique that present the precise mechanical coupling required.
- Alignment ridge on the entrance prime that assists mounting XtraX to any Vertere tonearm.
- The low-mass generator utilises a Samarium-Cobalt magnet with a low-mass cross coil manufactured from pure virgin copper wires.
- The low-mass generator is mounted into the high-mass physique utilizing a Quad-Level Contact with 4 Stainless’ Spike’ Screws for optimum assist and management of undesirable mechanical vibrations.
- The telescopic aluminium tube cantilever utilising two totally different aluminium supplies – maximises stiffness with out a huge excessive Q peak.
- Nude Micro Elliptical single crystal diamond stylus tip for optimum monitoring capacity with out compromising the high-frequency response or growing floor noise.
- Sq. shank diamond meeting maximises alignment precision, consistency and rigidity.
- Wideband frequency response of under 10Hz to 45kHz.
- Output of 0.45mV will present a lifelike dynamic vary with depth and precision.
What makes the Darkish Sabre particular
Historically, for the reason that passing of the Shure V15 Mk3 and perhaps the Mk4 transferring magnet cartridges, they’ve tended to be seen and heard as low and middle-market merchandise. Within the final two or three years, a number of extra high-end transferring magnet cartridges have been launched primarily to go well with trendy high-end built-in amplifiers – a comparatively new market entrant. Vertere’s Sabre, the high-end transferring magnet cartridge, has been profitable and introduced a requirement for a good additional improved model.
With its single crystal, nude micro elliptical diamond and twin aluminium telescopic cantilever, Darkish Sabre improves on Sabre considerably.
Darkish Sabre MM Options
- Aluminium alloy physique CNC precision machined from strong then exhausting anodised black.
- The low-mass generator utilises an Alnico magnet with a low-mass cross coil manufactured from pure virgin copper wires.
- The low-mass generator is mounted into the high-mass physique utilizing a Quad-Level Contact with 4 Stainless’ Spike’ Screws for optimum assist and management of undesirable mechanical vibrations.
- The physique is mass-tuned to the generator for optimum assist of undesirable vitality switch.
- The telescopic aluminium tube cantilever utilising two totally different aluminium supplies – maximises stiffness with out a huge excessive Q peak.
- Nude Micro Elliptical single crystal diamond stylus tip for optimum monitoring capacity with out compromising the high-frequency response or growing floor noise.
- Sq. shank diamond meeting maximises alignment precision, consistency, and rigidity.
- Alignment ridge on the entrance prime that assists mounting Sabre to any Vertere tonearm.
- Three particularly designed contact factors CNC machined into the highest of the physique that present the precise mechanical coupling required.
- Three particularly designed contact factors CNC machined into the highest of the physique that present the precise mechanical coupling required.
- Wideband frequency response of under 14Hz to above 28kHz
- Output of 4.3mV will present a lifelike dynamic vary with depth and precision.
Specs
| Darkish Sabre | Xtrax | |
| MSRP | $1,599 | $6,499 |
| Sort | Shifting Magnet | Shifting Coll |
| Output | 4.3mV (@ 1kHz, 5cm/sec.) | 0.45mV (@5cm/sec.) |
| Frequency Response | 14Hz-28kHz | 10Hz-45kHz |
| Coil Impedance (per Channel) | 1k Ohms, @ 1kHz | 40 Ω per channel |
| Really useful Monitoring Weight | 2.0g (1.90g-2.10g) | 2.05g (1.90g -2.10g) |
| Really useful Load | 47kQ OpF Max. 470pF | 850Ω-1k5Ω. 0pF – Max. 470pF |
| Cantilever | Aluminium – Telescopic | Aluminium – Telescopic |
| Magnet Sort | Alnico | Samarlum-Cobalt |
| Mounting to Stylus | ≈ 9.0 mm | ≈ 7.8 mm |
| Headshell to Stylus | ≈ 18.5 mm | ≈ 18.5 mm |
| Diamond Profile | Nude Micro Elliptical. (7.5 x 15.5 μm) | Nude Micro Elliptical (7.5 x 15.5 μm) |
| Dynamic Compliance | 10 x 10-6 cm/dyne (@100Hz) | 12×10-6 cm/dyne (@100Hz) |
| Channel Steadiness | Higher than 1dB | Higher than 1dB |
| Channel Separation | >25dB | >28dB |
| Generator Fixing | Particular Quad-Level Contact. 4 Stainless ‘Spike’ Screws | Particular Quad-Level Contact. 4 Stainless ‘Spike’ Screws |
| Head-shell Mounting | Tri-Level Contact M2.5 Threaded Fixing Holes | Vertere Tri-point M2.5 Threaded Fixing Holes |
| Weight | 11.5g | 11.2g |
Background
The cartridge’s job is to face as much as the mechanical torture of enjoying a file and ship essentially the most correct illustration of what was lower into the file’s groove as is feasible.
Touraj explains the supply of a few of his background data:
“Our collaboration with music trade engineers has given us invaluable insights into the artwork of reducing. This data has enabled us to advance our file participant design in some ways to extract the utmost from vinyl information.
For instance, together with his latest remixes of the Beatles albums, Giles Martin – son of the late Sir George – used a Vertere MG-1 file participant, together with SG-1 tonearm and PHONO-1 preamplifier all through, to verify and approve the acetates and the take a look at pressings.
We’ve labored carefully with the multi-award-winning mastering engineer Miles Showell since February 2017. Miles has been utilizing his personal extensively customised Neumann VMS 80 lathe, incorporating Vertere cables, to chop regular and half-speed masters for the likes of ABBA, Cream, The Police and The Rolling Stones, and likewise the Fiftieth-anniversary launch of The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band and The Beatles (in any other case referred to as ‘The White Album’).
Working carefully with Miles has led to the primary releases on our file label Vertere Data. Releases: a three-track EP, and first album by Scottish band Caezar, and the primary album by Dutch singer/songwriter Elles Springs, which was specifically tape-transferred, after which half-speed mastered and lower by Miles for our label.
By involving ourselves at each stage of the record-making course of, we are able to guarantee our gamers deliver you as shut as attainable to what the artists and engineers needed you to listen to.”
Value & Availability
Out there finish of October 2023.
- XtraX transferring coil cartridge – $6,499 (£5800, €6998)
- Darkish Sabre transferring magnet cartridge – $1,599 (£1450, €1798)
