Linn Kendo MC Cartridge

• Kendo is a modern martial art form; translated from the Japanese it means “way of the sword”.
• At Linn however, the word has unique connotations. Our sword is forged of boron, with a super-fine-line diamond tip. Our armour is nickel-coated, 7075-grade aluminium. Kendo is the eager apprentice to its master, Ekstatik; sharing the same values, and picking up many of its traits along the way.
• Kendo is the outcome of our engineers’ efforts to capitalise on the elements of Ekstatik which work so well; using our tried-and-true, trickle-down development methodology to produce a more affordable, high-performance cartridge which retains the same core design principles and acoustic fingerprint.
• Kendo possesses a rigid, nickel-coated 7075-grade aluminium body. This specific grade of aluminium matches that of our Arko tonearm, for which Kendo was designed to be the perfect partner. This facilitates superb material synergy throughout the tonearm system, and effectively banishes unwanted resonances away from the delicate generator, along the arm, and out through the sub-chassis.
  

• Moving coil (MC) cartridge
• Rigid, nickel-coated, 7075-grade aluminium body
• Low-mass and stiff boron cantilever
• Super-fine-line stylus
• Aluminium-bronze threaded inserts
• Perfectly paired with Arko tonearm
• Channel separation
  > 28dB
• Vertical tracking force
  2.0g
• Stylus Type
  Super Fine Line
• Cantilever
  Boron
• Armature
  Square
• Coil Wire
  Copper 4N
• Pin Connection Type
  1.2mm gold pin
• Mounting Points
  3
• Output Voltage
  0.45mV @3.54cm/s
• Channel Balance at 1 kHz
  <1dB
• Channel Separation at 1kHz
  Better than 28dB
• Load Resistance
  100Ω
• Load Capacitance`
  1nF
• Tracking Force
  2.0g
• Cartridge Mass
  7.6 g
  
  
  
  

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