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Linn Kendo Moving Coil cartridge Ex-Demonstration
Linn Kendo Moving Coil Cartridge
£2,150
RRP £3,080
The new Linn Kendo cartridge is a high end Moving Coil design. It looks similar in design to the range topping Ekstatik. It sits between the Krystal and Kandid in the Linn range. The body of the Kendo is made from Nickel coated aluminium. The cantilever is made from Boron and is fitted with a Super Fine Line Diamond tip. The Kendo is designed to be the perfect complement for the new Arko Tonearm. The two form part of the new Selekt LP12 package.
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About Linn Kendo
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Kendo is a modern martial art form; translated from Japanese it means “way of the sword”. At Linn, the word has unique connotations. Their sword is forged of boron, with a super-fine-line diamond tip. Their armour is nickel-coated, 7075-grade aluminium. Kendo is the eager apprentice to its master, Ekstatik; sharing the same values, and picking up many of its traits along the way.
Kendo is the outcome of Linn’s engineers’ efforts to capitalise on the elements of Ekstatik which work so well; using their tried-and-true, trickle-down development methodology to produce a more affordable, high-performance cartridge which retains the same core design principles and acoustic fingerprint.
Kendo possesses a rigid, nickel-coated 7075-grade aluminium body. This specific grade of aluminium matches that of their Arko tonearm, for which Kendo was designed to be the perfect partner. This facilitates superb material synergy throughout the tonearm system, and effectively banishes unwanted resonances away from the delicate generator, along the arm, and out through the sub-chassis.
Technical Specifications
- Stylus Type: Super Fine Line
- Rigid, nickel-coated, 7075-grade aluminium body
- Aluminium-bronze threaded inserts
- Cantilever: Low-mass and stiff boron
- Coil Wire: Copper 4N
- Pin Connection Type: 1.2mm gold pin
- Mounting Points: 3
- Output Voltage 0.45mV @3.54cm/s
- Channel Balance at 1 kHz < 1dB
- Channel Separation at 1kHz > 28dB
- Load Resistance 100Ω
- Load Capacitance` 1nF
- Tracking Force 2.0g
- Cartridge Mass 7.6 g
- High-performance moving coil cartridge (MC)
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