Aidas Cartidges - Mammoth Gold Cartridge

Item Description

Gold series cartridges are the Top performers in Aidas cartridges portfolio. Their uniqueness are of different body materials and 24kt pure Gold coils. Gold plated coils do sound very natural and detailed.

The Aidas Gold PL cartridges come with 2 different bodies: Tru-stone Blue River Agate and Mammoth tusk body. The Aidas Mammoth Gold is the newest and the most advanced of the Aidas cartridges.

The cartridge’s body is made with the ivory from 21,000 year old Siberian wooly mammoth tusks.

Mammoth tusk is the best and most unique material Aidas could ever find for his top cartridges. According to his experimental data, as it has very unique properties sound-wise, it is better than true-stone,

exotic wood or light metals. It was even compared to other types of bone /
horn (deer) material and is far more superior. It is super strong and damps unwanted vibrations perfectly. Compared to deer or buffalo horn material Mammoth is denser – no air bubbles and fewer impurities.

Purest possible. Rare and expensive. But still obtainable.

Every Mammoth cartridge body is a precision machined piece of art handmade of various parts of Mammoth tusk (pics below). Bodies may have:

• hairline cracks (glued, stabilised and polished);
• color differences;
• dark grooves.

All above is considered distinctive and original aesthetic features of each cartridge and therefore there are no 2 uniform Mammoth cartridge bodies – they are all unique.

Enjoy!

Specifications

Body: Mammoth Tusk
Cantilever: Namiki / Adamant boron
Stylus: MicroRidge
Output: 0.28mV
Magnet system: AINiCo5
Pins: 24kt pressed Gold (Brass base)
Tracking Force: 1.9g
Compliance lateral: 12 um/mN
Cartridge weight: 11.2g
Recommended loading: 100-1,000 ohms
Coils: Pure 999 Gold 0.04 mm
Mount: thread M2.5×0.45, 1/2inch / 12.7mm standard between the holes
Coil impedance DC: 3.5 ohms
Recommended tonearm mass: medium