Ekstatik
All-new, flagship moving coil cartridge
In order to make our best cartridge ever, we needed to look further afield, and at more varied materials. We conducted extensive experiments; auditioning different materials and configurations for the body, inserts, cantilever, suspension, windings and leads. The result is Ekstatik – the new jewel in the crown of the Linn cartridge range.
Our all-new, flagship cartridge, Ekstatik, sets a new bar for arm/cartridge synergy; its unique construction forges an harmonious synergy with Ekos SE; wicking away more unwanted resonances along the arm, and out through the sub-chassis.
In our search for ever better materials, our experiments led us to the implementation of aluminium-bronze inserts. Now a feature of Ekstatik, these inserts allow us to reap the sonic benefits we found this alloy to possess.
With a bespoke, honeycomb cut into the cartridge body, we have skeletonised Ekstatik so that overall mass is reduced to our preferred sweet spot of close to 7g.
A micro-ridge stylus on a sapphire cantilever makes for an extraordinarily responsive cartridge. The sapphire cantilever is far stiffer than boron or aluminium, resulting in less loss between the stylus and the generator.
The overall result is an agile, responsive cartridge with the added performance yielded from specifying these materials; masterfully matched in unique configurations.
Ekstatik
Key features
• Linn’s highest-performance cartridge
• Aluminium-bronze inserts
• Micro-ridge stylus on sapphire cantilever
• Machined honeycomb 7075 aluminium body
• Triple-point mounting system for accurate geometry
• Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) coated chassis
| Stylus Type | Micro-ridge |
| Cantilever | Sapphire |
| Pin Connection Type | Flying wire with termination clips - 1.2mm, gold |
| Mounting Points | 3 |
| Coil Wire | Copper 4N |
| Output Voltage | 0.45mV @ 3.54cm/s |
| Load Resistance | 100 Ω |
| Load Capacitance | 1nF |
| Tracking Force | 2.0 g |
| Cartridge Mass | 7 g |
Nintronics offers generous trade in prices to help make your next upgrade as seamless as possible, while greatly reducing the overall price of your purchase. Depending upon the items involved, Nintronics will be happy to send out one of our nationwide installation engineers to collect your traded in items and unbox, setup and calibrate your new equipment.
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