Gold Note MM & MC Phono Cartridges

Product description

Tuscany Gold Moving Coil Cartridge:

The Best MC Phono Cartridge Gold Note ever made !

These phenomenal cartridges feature an extra-thin Micro Ridge diamond stylus-tip developed by Adamant-Namiki, the world’s most famous Diamond stylus manufacturer. With its exclusive cut, it guarantees a deep vinyl groove contact like no others. Its thin and long gold-plated pin connectors enable an ideal contact with the arm cinch to avoid energy dispersion and improve grounding for a surprisingly silent background that reveals at its very best every single musical detail.

Paired with the B-7 Ceramic tonearm and Mediterraneo turntable, it represents the unique true High-End analogue set-up exclusively handmade in Italy.

The Tuscany cartridges are available in two models, Gold and Red which feature precious pure silver and copped coils.

Technical Specifications - Tuscany Gold

Technical Specifications - Tuscany Red

Gold Note Machiavelli Moving Coil Cartridge

Machiavelli's extra rigid cantilever handles a high precision Line Contact diamond in the Gold model and a Micro Elliptical diamond in the Red model, both developed in collaboration with Ogura the inventor of the Line-Contact diamond shape.

The diamond tip is mechanically inserted and blocked into the new cantilever that is consequently handled by a special pipe to increase the structure rigidity.

The Machiavelli Series can be easily matched with any active phono preamp for MC cartridges, without the need of Step-Up transformers.

The cantilever suspension takes advantage of an elastic and non-deformable harmonic steel spring, rigidly blocked to eliminate vibrations thus enhancing the tracking capability.

With thin and long gold-plated pin connectors, Machiavelli is designed to connect perfectly with arm cinches, reducing energy dispersion and improving grounding for an ideal music background necessary to enjoy even the smaller details of your records.

Machiavelli Gold MKII

Machiavelli Gold mkII offers extra rigidity with its Boron cantilever and 30Ω high internal impedance and 0.4 mV output level to easily match with MC phono preamps set-up without Step-Up transformers.

Technical Specifications Machiavelli Gold mkII

Typology: MC low output phono cartridge
Output Level: 0.4 mV
Frequency Response: 10-40000 Hz
Impedance: 30 Ω
Suggested Load: 470 Ω
Compliance: 10 × 10 - 6 cm/ dyne
Channel Separation: > 28 dB
Suggested Tracking Weight: 1.8 to 2.1 gram
Cantilever: Boron
Diamond: Line Contact
Diamond Size: 5 × 20 μm
Coil Wire: Copper
Magnet: Samarium-Cobalt
Mounting Hole Diamond Distance: 9 mm
Weight: 10 gram

Body Body 7050 Duraluminum alloy Color black body with gold logo and name

Machiavelli Red mkII

Machiavelli Red MKII offers extra rigidity with its Aluminum cantilever and 40 Ω high internal impedance and 0.5 mV output level to easily match with MC phono preamps set-up without Step-Up transformers.

Technical Specifications for Machiavelli Red MKII 

Typology: MC Low Output Phono Cartridge
Output Level: 0.5 mV
Frequency Response: 10-40000 Hz
Impedance: 40 Ω
Suggested Load: 47 KΩ
Compliance: 10 × 10-6 cm/ dyne
Channel Separation: > 28dB
Suggested Tracking Weight: 1.8 to 2.1 gram
Cantilever: Aluminum
Diamond: Micro Elliptical
Diamond Size: 7.5 × 15.5 μm
Coil Wire: Copper
Magnet: Samarium-Cobalt
Mounting Hole Diamond Distance: 9 mm
Weight: 10 gram

Body: Body 7050 Duraluminum alloy Color: Black with Red Logo

Donatello 

The main design behind the new Donatello MC cartridge was to engineer the best sounding cartridge of its category enabling a solid machined aluminum body, light enough to be handled by every tone-arms. The results exceeded expectations!

After two years of continuous research, here is Donatello: a sophisticated, computer designed body made of machined aluminum.

Weighing only 7gram, it's perfectly damped to help the cantilever achieve the best tracking ability.
Donatello's ultra-rigid cantilever handles a high precision Micro Elliptical diamond exclusively developed in collaboration with Adamant - Namiki and designed for top audio performance.

Empowered by Technology 

As our flagship cartridges, Donatello's diamond tip is mechanically inserted and locked into a long, stiffened aluminum cantilever, handled in a special titanium telescopic seat to increase structural rigidity.

Like GN top class models, Donatello features long gold-plated pin connectors designed to connect perfectly with arm cinches, reducing energy dispersion and improving grounding for an ideal music background that will let you enjoy even the smaller details of your music.

Donatello Red features high internal impedance & gain levels so that it can be easily matched with MM phono preamp while the Donatello Gold can be driven correctly by MC preamps, without the need of any Step-Up transformers.

* All Donatello cartridges come with serial number indelibly printed in the engraved area at the top of the body *

Donatello Gold

Technical Specifications Donatello Gold

Typology: MC low Output Phono Cartridge
Output Level: 0.5 mV
Frequency Response: 10-40000 Hz
Impedance: 40 Ω
Suggested Load: 470 Ω
Compliance: 12 × 10-6 cm/ dyne
Channel Separation: > 25 dB
Channel Balance: < 1 db
Suggested Tracking Weight: 1.8 to 2.1 gram
Cantilever: Aluminum
Diamond: Micro Elliptical
Coil Wire: copper
Magnet: samarium-cobalt
Mounting Hole Diamond Distance: 9 mm

Body: Duraluminum alloy Color: Gold with Black Logo

Donatello Red

Technical Specifications for Donatello Red 

Typology: MC High Output Phono Cartridge
Output Level: 1.8 mV
Frequency Response: 10-35000 Hz
Impedance: 140 Ω
Suggested Load: 47 KΩ
Compliance: 12 × 10-6 cm/ dyne
Channel Separation: > 24 dB
Channel Balance: < 1 dB
Suggested Tracking Weight: 1.8 to 2.1 gram
Cantilever: aluminum
Diamond: micro elliptical
Coil Wire: Copper
Magnet: samarium-cobalt
Mounting Hole Diamond Distance: 9 mm

Body: Duraluminum Color: Red with White Logo

Vasari - The new Moving Magnet Cartridge

Vasari combines style and technology: the innovative and beautiful design of this cartridge, realized with the help of computer modeling, has been created to achieve the peak performance an MM can deliver. Its high dampening structure, made of quality materials, and its ultra-rigid Aluminum cantilever make Vasari a superb tracker to let the custom diamond tip, exclusively developed on our specifics, extract all the information from the vinyl groove.

The First Step for Audiophiles

To deliver even the finest details, the cantilever has been securely and directly inserted into the metal body.

The result is enhanced rigidity of the cartridge and better tracking performances, achieving wider and smoother bandwidth response.

Vasari completes our range of cartridges: it is without any doubt the best MM model we have ever made.

Vasari Gold

Technical Specifications for Vasari Gold 

Typology: MM Phono Cartridge
Output Level: 4mV
Frequency Response: 15-25000Hz
Impedance: 1000Ω
Suggested Load: 47 KΩ
Inductance: 500 mH
Compliance: 10 × 10 - 6 cm/ dyne
Channel Separation: > 22 dB
Channel Balance: < 2 dB
Suggested Tracking Weight: 2 gram
Cantilever: Aluminum
Diamond: Elliptical
Diamond Size: 7.5*15.5μm
Weight: 9 gram
Coil Wire: Copper
Magnet: Alnico
Mounting Hole Diamond Distance: 9 mm

Body: Duraluminum Color: Black with Golden Logo

Vasari Red

Technical Specifications Vasari Red

Typology: MM Phono Cartridge
Output Level: 4 mV
Frequency Response: 15-25000 Hz
Impedance: 1000 Ω
Suggested Load: 47 KΩ
Inductance: 500 mH
Compliance: 10 × 10-6 cm/ dyne
Channel Separation: > 20 dB
Channel Balance: < 2 dB
Suggested Tracking Weight: 2 gram
Cantilever: Aluminum
Diamond: Conical
Diamond Size: 15.5 μm
Weight: 7 gram
Coil Wire: Copper
Magnet: Alnico
Mounting Hole Diamond Distance: 9 mm

Body: Delrin Color: Black with Red Logo