Van Den Hul Colibri XGW Cartridge, African Black Wood, Gold Coil, Original $10K

Description: From my private collection: Van den Hul Colibri XGW MC Moving Coil Phono Cartridge. This cartridge is in great operational and cosmetic condition, the sound is detailed, fast, and dynamic, stylus still sharp, cantilever and suspension is also in excellent condition. Used under 100 hours and has been stored for many years. If you want the best, this is your chance to own one. Van Den Hul Colibri XGW Cartridge, rare gold coil cartridge, African Black Wood Grenadille, original box.Van Den Hul The COLIBRI XGW Gold wire coil,Our top model custom hand built phono cartridge, featuring matched crystal Gold coils with 0.38mV/channel output. As a result of phono cartridge builder A.J. van den Hul’s continuous research into improving his phono cartridge designs our top model “The Colibri” has seen the light of day. The Colibri is the improved successor to our Grasshopper “Beauty” series of phono cartridges where many building components have been removed in a highly successful quest to return to the plain essence of phono transduction. The result is an unbelievably straightforward sounding “clean and open” design, in all its aspects bearing much resemblance to the “Colibri” named tropical bird’s swiftness, elegance and beauty; Hence the cartridge’s name. Compared to our GRASSHOPPER “BEAUTY” series the following differences stand out: By minimizing and adapting the cartridge’s total magnetic circuit the related distortion and (Barkhausen) noise have undergone a considerable decrease. This opens up many subtle sound details that never have been heard before; Especially the decay of instrument sounds now stands out much more clearly in the music’s totality.Due to the minimization of the cartridge’s total magnetic circuit the cartridge’s mass has been reduced. Together with the possibility to tune the cartridge’s static compliance on special customer demand it is now possible to use very light tonearms whilst maintaining a very good tracking ability.By removing the frontpole is has been possible to apply an even shorter cantilever; This further improves the groove-modulation-transduction’s directness and accuracy. XG Version: (X = cross shaped modulator, G = matched crystal Gold wire coils) Medium output, most suitable for classical musicOutput voltage: 0.38 mV/channelTypes available: XGW, XGP, XGM, XGA (-W, -P, -M and -A type see extra info) Please watch the YouTube videos:https://youtu.be/WZuMamfd6-Y?si=8-qzV-om2jRoCN6Xhttps://youtu.be/0z3UTzwLRQ4?si=08f3ASumxdXjiDx8Features: Different body types-W (W = wooden body), -P (Carbon plastic body), -M (Metal body, -A (Amber body)Stylus shapeVDH - 1SStylus radius2 x 85 MicronFrequency range5 - 65,000 HzTracking force range1.35-1.5g (13.5 - 15 mN)Static compliance35 Micron / mNDynamic compliance20 Micron / mNOutput voltage 0.38 mVChannel unbalance <0.5 dBChannel separation> 35 /> 30 dBStylus tip mass0.24 MilligramVertical tracking angle22 DegreesLoad impedance 50-47K OhmRecommended tonearm effective mass: 10-16 gramsWeight: 7.5 gmsThis cartridge comes with original wood box, screws and bubble level.I have sold a lot of cartridges and got a lot of good feedback on Audio Mart( ID:waynesaudio), please check them out.And please take a look my other items.https://www.usaudiomart.com/userads.phpThanks!WayneWayne's Audio

Price: 3680 USD

Location: Pomona, California

End Time: 2025-01-02T16:53:51.000Z

Shipping Cost: 39 USD