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The Axia may well impress & surprise the music lovers first foray into the world of Transfiguration - moving coil cartridges.The design reveals a coherently musical and natural presentation, setting it apart from many exaggerated "Hi-Fi" interpreters.

Its excellent ability to recreate the correct timing in music facilitates the seamless rendering of explicit information, together with an effortless and flowing accuracy of timbre, convincing depth and correctness to the acoustic ebb of  each note.

Utilising a double ring magnet for a moving coil cartridge has enabled six unique design improvements:

• Just two coils within double ring magnets - Samarium cobalt - front & Neodymium - rear.

• No yokes.

• No magnetic irregularities.

• Coils at the crux of the magnetic focus.

• Intimate coil/magnet coupling.

• Simple resonance – free body design.

Body: Solid aluminium, non-resonant with deeply cut away sides

Cantilever: 0.3mm Æ solid boron

Stylus: Ogura PA (3 x 30mm) solid diamond

Core/coils: High grade permalloy square core & 4N  silver coils

Magnetic material: Samarium cobolt - front  & neodymium - rear.

Output terminals: 1.2mm dia. gold plated (EIA)

Weight: 7g

Electrical

Output voltage: 0.4mV (3.54cm/s - 1kHz)

Internal impedance: 8 ohms ( DC resistance per channel)

Frequency response: 10Hz – 20kHz + 1.5dB   20kHz – 40kHz + 2dB

Channel separation: > 27dB (200Hz - 10kHz)

Channel balance: < 0.5dB at 1kHz

Load impedance: > 20 ohms

Dynamic

Tracking ability: >68µm at a tracking force of 1.8g  at 315Hz.

Dynamic compliance: 12 x 10-6 cm/dyne

Set up instructions

Recommended loading: >7 ohms

Tracking force range: 1.7 – 2.2g

Rec'd tracking force: 2.0 g

Optimum working temp': 23º celsius

Break in period: 30 hours