Miyajima Madake
Product Code: MJC006
£4,950.00
ex-vat: £ 4,125.00
Noriyuki Miyajima has been producing extraordinary artisanal cartridges for decades. His designs, which feature an ingenious cross-coil moving coil generator and damping system, produce a full-bodied, supremely musical sound that recalls vintage audio systems, but with the high resolution and articulate frequency extremes of the finest modern cartridges. All Miyajima cartridges are low-compliance, and therefore suitable for high- and medium-mass tonearms, like the Thomas Schick and some of Frank Schröder’s designs.
The Miyajima Madake features a bamboo (madake) cantilever with an aluminium tip at the stylus end, with a nude Shibata stylus. A Stereophile Recommended Class A component, and one of the pinnacles of Noriyuki Miyajima’s art.
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Press Reviews
“The sound quality was exceptionally beguiling, seeming to bring an unfamiliar but very welcome richness to the proceedings. We all know that Johnny Cash has a wonderful voice, but just how wonderful I hadn’t realised until I spun Girl from the North Country (on Nashville Skyline) with the Madake on the end of my tonearm.”
“Madake is one of these cartridges that define “high-end” term, that bring us closer to the music, closer than many, some even more expensive, pickups. A proprietary mechanical design, very unusual material used for cantilever – one will find these elements only in this brand’s particular product. Mr Noriyuki Miyajima is a true master, true artist.”
Specs
- Body material
- African blackwood
- Stylus
- Nude Shibata
- Frequency response
- 20 Hz to 32 kHz
- Weight
- 9.7 g
- Tracking force
- 2.5 g
- Internal impedance
- 16 Ohms
- Recommended load
- 100 Ohms
- Output
- 0.23 mV
- Compliance
- About 9×10-6cm/dyne