Half-Inch Mount Cartridges

BANG & OLUFSEN MMC-10E MMC 10E MMC10E PHONO CARTRIDGE

The Bang & Olufsen MMC-10E MMC 10E MMC10E phono cartridge is discontinued and is no longer available. The Bang & Olufsen MMC-20 series cartridges are replacements for the Bang & Olufsen MMC-10E phono cartridge. We have a small quantity of MMC-20EN and MMC-20CL phono cartridges so that Beogram owners can continue to enjoy their exquisite turntables using an original Bang & Olufsen cartridge.

BANG & OLUFSEN MMC-20EN MMC 20EN MMC20EN CARTRIDGE

The B&O MC-20EN MMC 20EN MMC20EN phono cartridge comes in its original plastic case as shown, brand new and unused. The B&O MMC-20EN phono cartridge features a nude elliptical diamond stylus mounted on a thin-wall, tapered cantilever. The performance of the MMC-20EN is excellent and highly rated by B&O and vinyl enthusiasts. We have very limited supply.

BANG & OLUFSEN MMC3000, 4000, 5000, 6000 PHONO CARTRIDGES

The Bang & Olufsen MMC3000, 4000, 5000 and 6000 phono cartridges are discontinued and are no longer available. The Bang & Olufsen MMC-20 series cartridges are replacements for all of these phono cartridges. We have a small quantity of MMC-20EN and MMC-20CL phono cartridges so that Beogram owners can continue to enjoy their exquisite turntables using an original Bang & Olufsen cartridge.

BANG & OLUFSEN SP-10 SP 10 SP10 PHONO CARTRIDGE

The Bang & Olufsen SP-10 SP 10 SP10 pick up cartridge is a low impedance moving iron phono cartridge for high fidelity reproduction of stereo and mono records.

Naked Diamond
The cartridge is fitted with a highly polished naked diamond stylus mounted directly in a low mass cantilever to give very low effective tip mass. The moving parts are critically damped and this factor along with a high compliance allows very low stylus pressure to be used for reproduction.

Micro Cross
A symmetrical micro-cross armature picks up signals from the record with excellent separation and the balanced push-pull magnetic circuit and pick-up coils ensure very low distortion and cancellation of external magnetic fields resulting in very low hum pickup.

Product Packaging
The Bang & Olufsen SP-10 pick up cartridge Type 8905424 comes complete with a spherical naked diamond stylus in a metal can. It is our last one. This is not new but practically so. We used it once for less than an hour to test a B&O turntable about 20 years ago, then uninstalled and boxed it. We found it again after all these years. It comes complete with manual, stylus cover and plastic box. It is a very rare find. We have not seen one in over a decade.

Bang & Olufsen SP-10 Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving micro cross
- Output voltage: 1mV/cm/sec 5mV ave. from music record
- Frequency response: 15Hz-25kHz +/- 3dB
- Load impedance: 47k ohms
- Channel separation: >25dB
- Stylus type: Naked diamond spherical
- Stylus replacement: Bang & Olufsen SP-10 Type 5429 or SP-12 Type 5430 for improved performance
- Cantilever: Aluminum tube
- Compliance: 25mm/N
- Recommended tracking force: 1.2 g
- Weight: 8.5 g

BENZ MICRO GOLD MC PHONO CARTRIDGE

The Benz Micro Gold Moving Coil phono cartridge is a real smooth performer, delivering much of the natural tonal balance and high accuracy of its more expensive brethens. It offers a friendly 0.4mV output and performs with excellence when used with MC capable phono pre amps. Near musical nirvana comes built into the Benz Micro Gold MC cartridge. Like a number of its brethens, the Benz Micro Gold MC cartridge is a Stereophile Recommended Component.

Re-tip Exchange Allowance is offered. Please email us for the re-tip exchange value of your cartridge - working or not.

Re-tip Exchange Instructions: Should you purchase this cartridge with a re-tip exchange, please note when you check out your total will show the normal sale price and NOT the re-tip exchange price. When we process your order, you will be charged ONLY the re-tip exchange price. After you receive your new Benz-Micro cartridge, please carefully pack and ship your old Benz Micro Gold MC cartridge to us (see our website for address).

Benz Micro Gold MC Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving coil stereo cartridge
- Cantilever: Aluminum alloy tube
- Stylus type: Elliptical diamond
- Stylus tip radius: 0.3 x 0.7 mil
- Vertical tracking angle: 23°
- Output voltage @ 3.54cm/sec: 0.4mV
- Internal impedance: 120 ohms
- Frequency response: 20Hz-25kHz
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: >1.2 dB
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: >30 dB
- Dynamic compliance: 15 µm/mN
- Recommended loading: >200 - 47k ohms
- Tracking force range: 1.8-2.2 g
- Tracking force recommended: 2 g (20 mN)
- Recommended tonearm mass: Medium to high
- Optimum working temperature: 23° C
- Break-in period: 30 hours
- Warranty: 2 years manufacturing defect

BENZ MICRO SILVER MC PHONO CARTRIDGE

The Benz Micro Silver Moving Coil phono cartridge is a real smooth performer, delivering much of the natural tonal balance and high accuracy of its more expensive brethens. It offers a friendly 2.0mV output and performs with excellence when used with regular Moving Magnet phono preamps. There's no more reason why you shouldn't go MCing!

Re-tip Exchange Allowance is offered. Please email us for the re-tip exchange value of your cartridge - working or not.

Re-tip Exchange Instructions: Should you purchase this cartridge with a re-tip exchange, please note when you check out your total will show the normal sale price and NOT the re-tip exchange price. When we process your order, you will be charged ONLY the re-tip exchange price. After you receive your new Benz-Micro cartridge, please carefully pack and ship your old Benz Micro Silver MC cartridge to us (see our website for address).

Benz Micro Silver MC Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving coil stereo cartridge
- Cantilever: Aluminum alloy tube
- Stylus type: Elliptical diamond
- Stylus tip radius: 0.3 x 0.7 mil
- Vertical tracking angle: 20°
- Output voltage @ 3.54 cm/sec: 2.0mV
- Internal impedance: 120 ohms
- Frequency response: 20Hz-25kHz
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: >1.2dB
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: >30 dB
- Dynamic compliance: 15 µm/mN
- Recommended loading: >200 - 47k ohms
- Tracking force range: 1.8-2.2 g
- Tracking force recommended: 2 g (20 mN)
- Recommended tonearm mass: Medium to high
- Optimum working temperature: 23° C
- Break-in period: 30 hours
- Warranty: 2 years manufacturing defect

BIN 215 PHONO CARTRIDGE - HIGH OUTPUT MC 1.7 mV

The BIN 215 is a product of intent and serendipity. For decades we had aspired for a Moving Coil cartridge that is unpretentiously musical - just like the Small and Large Advent Speakers¹ in the Seventies that became standards of high excellence despite their very modest price. On my meager part-time job, I was able to set aside and afford them as a student at DePaul University in Chicago. The BIN 215 was conceived and designed during the pinnacle age of phono cartridges and is thus founded on the exuberance, best practices and exclusive knowledge of that golden and fertile time. Revived with additional learning, select newer parts, tight tolerances and old world craftsmanship, the BIN 215 like vintage years of superior wine has improved with age to become the best in doing what it does - nothing at all but sweet authentic music extracted from the grooves!

Serendipity and auspiciousness are courtesy of Sugano San. He introduced me to Masao Okada-San, the cartridge grand master of Excel Sound fame, the well-spring of many highly regarded cartridges. With the BIN cartridges, Okada-San had full control of product development. We wanted the BIN to be his best effort at an affordable, world-class High-Output MC cartridge. We wanted a MC product that MM users could eaily, and without encumbrance transition to and enjoy MC sound quality. Its sound quality thus bears Okada-San's DNA as can be heard in his later works with their HANA cartridges.

LP GEAR BIN 215 Comparative
The Supex 901 Super High Output MC cartridge² is legendary. This 35-year old cartridge transcends time and sounds astonishing even today with its ability to reproduce musical passages with poise, timbral sophistication and picturesque spatial placement. It plays with silken musical ease and rightness that lets you enjoy listening for hours - it's like the mind works less to fill in the tonal gaffes. The BIN 215 offers textural and spatial kinship, harmonic richness and flowing timbral accuracy - less silken and in counterpoint slightly more revealing and quicker than the Supex SD 901 Super. Your ears will hear and delight in its delicacy, natural sound quality and eloquence.

LP GEAR BIN 215 Specifications
• Tonearm mount: 1/2 inch
• Type: Moving coil (MC), high output
• Output voltage at 1kHz, 3.54 cm/sec: 1.7 mV
• Frequency response: 15 - 30,000 Hz
• Load impedance: 47 kΩ
• Channel separation at 1 kHz: 23 dB
• Output balance at 1 kHz: <1.0 dB
• Tracking force range: 2.0 - 2.3 g (2.0 g recommended)
• Coil inductance at 1kHz: 630 μH
• Static compliance: 15 x 10-6 cm/dyne measured at 100 Hz
• Dynamic compliance: 10 x 10-6 cm/dyne measured at 100 Hz
• Stylus: Highly polished, precision shaped Special Elliptical diamond
• Stylus shape: 0.3 x 0.7 mil
• Cantilever: Special aluminum alloy
• Vertical tracking angle: 23°
• Dimensions: 17(H) × 17(W) × 24.7(D) mm
• Weight: 4.0 g (5.6 g with brass mounting hardware and shim)
• Accessories included: Stylus protector (x 1), Brass screws (x 2), Brass nuts (x 2), Alignment Protractor, LP Gear 1.2 g Shim

Note: Specifications are subject to change without notice.

Customer Comments
"Where did you get this thing? Breathtaking is not giving it justice!"

"I have never owned any cartridge that does not compress the music until now. I have also never owned anything with the linearity of this cartridge (from the very lowest to the highest...linear)."

"BREATHTAKING! It isn't even broken in and rides on my "lowest" turntable of the assemblage; yet, there is where it will stay. I have never heard the Technics sound like this!"

"I just listened to Sarah McLachlan sing "I Love You" to me. Never have I heard the bass notes of this song so distinctly and yet so much a part of the "reality" of the song. She occupied my listening room while she sang "Angel" as never before."

"The LP Gear BIN 215 is amazing! Thank you very much for supplying such an amazing cartridge. I have 2 cartridges that are 2X the price and one that is 4X...The 215 is better than all of them."

"After one month using the BIN 215 it is consistently surpassing my expectations. All types of music come through perfectly, but one distinguishing feature is its freedom from any treble distortions. Its treble performance is smooth, clean, easy, with a special delicacy. A special cartridge."

"Plugged in the BIN215 on the weekend. Still needs a bit of tweaking but I'm definitely not disappointed. It seems to reign in all the things that I didn't like about the sound I was getting from the Orofon 2m red. First record played was back in black and the sound just made me turn it up louder and louder in search of some harshness in the treble and there just isn't any. Glad to finally have the sound reminiscent of my old Supex 900 series back again."

"The BIN 215 high output moving coil cartridge sounds ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE."

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¹ J. Gordon Holt, "The Advent Loudspeaker," Stereophile, Jan 1, 1971.

² Music listening equipment: Graham Slee Reflex M phono preamp, Graham Slee Elevator EXP headamp, Denon AU-300LC Step-up transformer, Graham Slee Proprius mono amps, Electronic Visionary Systems Ultimate Attenuators Passive Preamp, Odyssey Kismet Reference Amp, Quicksilver Silver 88 mono amps, Roadrunner Digital Turntable Tachometer, Sota Sapphire turntable, Supex SD 901 Super cartridge, Denon DL-103 cartridge, Denon DL-110 cartridge, Grace F-9E cartridge, Audience SE Phono Cable, Audience Ohno speaker cables, Rogers LS3/5A speakers, Audience ClairAudient 1+1 Loudspeakers, Krell LAT 2 speakers, Yamaha NS1000M speakers.

BIN 323 PHONO CARTRIDGE - HIGH OUTPUT MOVING COIL CARTRIDGE 1.7 mV
- Does nothing at all but play music magnificently

"A couple of months ago I purchased a BIN 323 Phono Cartridge for LP Gear to add some variety to my line up of Phono Cartridges.  I have some good cartridges from Audio Technica and Hana, mostly Moving Coil cartridges.  I wanted something different from what I had to listen to, so I read up on the LP Gear BIN 323 High Output Coil cartridge. I first installed it on my Technics SL1200GR direct drive deck for a spin.  At first, I found nothing special other than it seemed to have more output falling somewhere between a good Moving Magnet and Moving Coil cartridge.  Early on, it sounded to be a bit "Knarly" sounding with the high frequencies, with too much of a sharp edge.  After about 5 to 6 weeks of frequent use, it smoothed out quite bit and sounded more natural and pleasing.

The BIN 323 is a product of serendipity and universal auspiciousness. For decades we had aspired for a Moving Coil cartridge that is unpretentiously musical - just like the Small and Large Advent Speakers² in the Seventies that became standards of high excellence despite their very modest price. On my meager part-time job, I was able to set aside and afford them as a student at DePaul University in Chicago. The BIN 323 was conceived and designed during the pinnacle age of phono cartridges and is thus founded on the exuberance, best practices and exclusive knowledge of that golden and fertile time. Revived with additional learning, select newer parts, tight tolerances and old world craftsmanship, the BIN 323 like vintage years of superior wine has improved with age to become the best in doing what it does - nothing at all but sweet authentic music extracted from the grooves!

Serendipity and auspiciousness are courtesy of Sugano San. He introduced me to Masao Okada-San, the cartridge grand master of Excel Sound fame, the well-spring of many highly regarded cartridges. With the BIN cartridges, Okada-San had full control of product development. We wanted the BIN to be his best signature work at an affordable, world-class High-Output MC cartridge. We wanted a MC product that MM users could eaily, and without encumbrance transition to and enjoy MC sound quality. Its sound quality thus bears Okada-San's DNA as can be heard in his later works with their HANA cartridges.

LP GEAR BIN 323 Musically
The BIN 323 plays glowingly with flowing musical ease and rightness that takes your breath away - it's like the mind knows when music is real.² The BIN 323 offers harmonic and spectral richness, flowing musicality - harmonic notes, transients and counterpoints flow cascading and colliding cohesively from start to fading end. Your ears will hear the delightful delicacy, natural sound quality and missing timbre extracted from the grooves.

LP GEAR BIN 323 Specifications
• Tonearm mount: 1/2 inch
• Type: Moving coil (MC), high output
• Output voltage at 1kHz, 3.54 cm/sec: 1.7 mV
• Frequency response: 15 - 40,000 Hz
• Load impedance: 47 k&ohm;
• Channel separation at 1 kHz: 25 dB
• Output balance at 1 kHz: <1.0 dB
• Tracking force range: 2.0 - 2.3 g (2.0 g recommended)
• Coil inductance at 1kHz: 630 μH
• Static compliance: 15 x 10-6 cm/dyne
• Dynamic compliance: 10 x 10-6 cm/dyne
• Stylus: Nude Special Line Contact 
• Stylus shape: 5 x 20 µm
• Cantilever: Special aluminum alloy
• Vertical tracking angle: 23°
• Dimensions: 17(H) × 17(W) × 24.7(D) mm
• Weight: 4.0 g (5.6 g with brass mounting hardware and shim)
• Accessories included: Stylus protector (x 1), Brass screws (x 2), Brass nuts (x 2), Alignment Protractor, LP Gear 1.2 g Shim

Note: Specifications are subject to change without notice.

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¹ Paul Szabady, "LP Gear BIN 323 MC Phono Cartridge May, 2018.
² J. Gordon Holt, "The Advent Loudspeaker," Stereophile, Jan 1, 1971.
² Music listening equipment: Graham Slee Reflex M phono preamp, Graham Slee Elevator EXP headamp, Denon AU-300LC Step-up transformer, Graham Slee Proprius mono amps, Electronic Visionary Systems Ultimate Attenuators Passive Preamp, Odyssey Kismet Reference Amp, Quicksilver Silver 88 mono amps, Roadrunner Digital Turntable Tachometer, Sota Sapphire turntable, Supex SD 901 Super cartridge, Denon DL-103 cartridge, Denon DL-110 cartridge, Grace F-9E cartridge, Audience SE Phono Cable, Audience Ohno speaker cables, Rogers LS3/5A speakers, Audience ClairAudient 1+1 Loudspeakers, Krell LAT 2 speakers, Yamaha NS1000M speakers.

DENON 100TH ANNIVERSARY DL-A100 DL A100 DLA100 PHONO CARTRIDGE - LOW OUTPUT MOVING COIL

The Denon DL-A100 cartridge was developed by precisely reproducing the original engineering reference model of the high-performance Japanese standard cartridge DL-103 and elevating its performance, accuracy and musicality by using the latest tuning technologies. All of the coils are hand-wound, with more time taken for the Anniversary model.

In his Stereophile review of the Denon DL-A100 cartridge, Art Dudley found the DL-A100 to be naturally detailed without brightness and imbued with excellent musical flow. In comparison with the DL-103, his experience is that the DL-103 was tubbier in the bass region while the DL-A100 is cleaner down there; the Denon DL-A100 also offered better micro-detail dynamics and resolution. ¹

● Signatures of Excellence
The DL-A100 features the 100th anniversary special case, and comes with a 5-year warranty and a signed certificate of authenticity from the chief production engineer who had crafted the product. Also included is a beautiful Denon "brand book" that explores the history of one of the leading names in the audio-visual field.

Denon DL-A100 Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Cabinet: Clear type mold
- Type: Moving coil (MC)
- Output: 0.3mV
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: 1dB
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: 25dB
- Output impedance: 40 ohms ± 20%
- Suggested loading: 100 ohms min.
- Stylus: 0.2 mm square solid diamond
- Frequency response: 20Hz-45kHz
- Tracking force: 2.5g ± 0.3g
- Compliance: 5 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Accessories included: Mount screws (Length: Approx 17 mm) - 2 pcs; Mount screws (Length: Approx 11 mm) - 2 pcs; Mount nuts - 2 pcs; Washer - 2 pcs; Stylus cover - 1 pc; Stylus cleaning brush - 1 pc; Stylus position adjustment gauge - 1 pc; Owner's manual - 1 pc; Data sheet - 1 pc; Denon Service Network list

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¹Art Dudley, "Listening: Denon's Direct Drive at 40," Stereophile, Vol.34 No.11 (December 2011): 41.

DENON DL-102 DL 102 DL102 PHONO CARTRIDGE
- Discontinued, no longer available.

Developed initially for broadcasting, the Denon DL-102 phono cartridge was designed to reproduce superior sound from monaural recorded records. The high output mono signal is designed to work with a standard moving magnet input.

A true mono phono design, the Denon DL-102 cartridge is capable of outstanding musicality when replaying monaural records. There are also those who believe that the DL-102 plays stereo records magnificently well.

Denon DL-102 Mono Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Output voltage @ 1kHz, 5cm/sec: 3mV
- Frequency response: 50Hz-10kHz +/- 2dB
- Stylus tip radius: 17 micron, round
- Tracking force: 2-4 g
- Output impedance: 240 ohms
- Weight: 13 g

Reviews
http://www3.sympatico.ca/murraya/DenonMonoPage.htm

DENON DL-103 DL 103 DL103 PHONO CARTRIDGE

"For the first round-up, I was initially to have received the slightly upscale version of Denon's venerable DL-103 (the "R" version)—favored by none another than Dave Wilson, regardless of price, for its tonal accuracy and overall balance—but instead perhaps due to a communication mix-up, I ended up with the straight DL-103. Whichever model you consider, at $379 and $229 respectively, this true classic, which has been in production since I got into this hobby in the mid-70s, must be counted among audio's most remarkable values."
- Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound, October 2010, Issue 206, p36

The Denon DL-103 phono cartridge is the only moving coil cartridge that has withstood the test of time. Developed by Denon in collaboration with the Japan Broadcasting Corporation Technical Research Laboratories as a high-performance, high-reliability phono cartridge for broadcasting purposes, the Denon DL-103 has been in continuous production since 1963.

While other "wonder" cartridges have come and gone, the Denon DL-103 continues to thrive by offering musical rightness. There is no other cartridge that comes close to its legacy. The Denon DL-103 phono cartridge has been in use for a long time in public and commercial AM and FM broadcasting stations. It was used by EMI and Decca as their reference for evaluating LP sound quality. It's been evaluated, reviewed and praised by many publications and end-users. It's been around for over 40 years. Along the way, it has captured the hearts and minds of technical experts, audiophiles and music lovers. It's a testament that greatness endures. This is what comes with your ownership of a Denon DL-103. It is a phono cartridge that you will enjoy for a very long time.

Denon DL-103 Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving coil
- Output voltage: 0.3mV
- Frequency response: 20Hz-45kHz
- Output impedance: 40 ohms
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: < 1db
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: 25dB
- Stylus tip: 0.2 mm special round solid diamond
- Compliance: 5 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Recommended tracking force: 2.5 +/- 0.3g
- Color: Black
- Weight: 8.5 g
- Recommended load resistance: 100 ohms or more

Reviews
http://www.high-endaudio.com/RC-Denon.html

DENON DL-103R DL 103R DL103R PHONO CARTRIDGE

"For the first round-up, I was initially to have received the slightly upscale version of Denon's venerable DL-103 (the "R" version)—favored by none another than Dave Wilson, regardless of price, for its tonal accuracy and overall balance—but instead perhaps due to a communication mix-up, I ended up with the straight DL-103. Whichever model you consider, at $379 and $229 respectively, this true classic, which has been in production since I got into this hobby in the mid-70s, must be counted among audio's most remarkable values."- Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound, October 2010, Issue 206, p36

10 Audio gives the Denon DL-103R its Highest Award

The Denon DL-103R phono cartridge has always received many praises from reviewers and music listeners. Witness the the above award and many other user feedback available in many forums.

The Denon DL-103R phono cartridge is an updated version of the classic and venerable Denon DL-103. The Denon DL-103R extends the capabilities of its progenitor by using 99.9999% high purity (6N) copper coils wound with precision to the cantilever shaft. Music lovers will delight in the cohesive detail, air and crystal clarity offered by this outstanding phono cartridge.

Denon DL-103R Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving coil
- Output voltage: 0.25mV
- Frequency response: 20Hz-45kHz
- Output impedance: 14 ohms
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: < 1db
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: 25dB
- Stylus tip: 0.02 mm special round solid diamond
- Compliance: 5 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Recommended tracking force: 2.5 +/- 0.3g
- Color: Black
- Weight: 8.5 g
- Recommended load resistance: 100 ohms or more

Reviews
The Best Cartridge under $1,000 - 10 Audio
Denon Record Cartridge Rocks - Smarthouse
Denon Cartridge Museum

DENON DL-103SA DL 103SA DL103SA PHONO CARTRIDGE
- Discontinued. For replacements, refer to the Related Products below.

The Denon DL-103SA is a special edition of the highly regarded Denon DL-103R cartridge. Both share the same specification. The wiring is made of 6N OFC cable with metallic blue fiberglass composite housing. The limited edition Denon DL-103SA offers superior resolution and sound quality way above and beyond the DL-103R. The cartridge has a smoother and fuller sound with each instrument more clearly and precisely defined in dimensional space and time. The sound stage is closer for more listening intimacy. The bass goes lower and is dynamic, full and solid. Denon states it is a dream MC cartridge - probably their cryptic way of saying it is exceptionally different and extraordinarily way beyond very good.

The Denon DL-103SA is packaged in a luxury walnut wood case. Only 2,000 pieces of this model will be manufactured. A frequency response curve of the given unit is supplied.

Denon DL-103SA Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving coil
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,50mm/s horizontal direction: 0.25mV
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: 1dB
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: 25db
- Electrical impedance: 14 ohms +/- 20%
- Compliance: 5 x 10-3 m/N
- Stylus: 0.2 mm square solid diamond
- Tracking force: 25 mN +/- 3 mN (2.5 g +/- 0.3 g)
- Frequency response: 20Hz-45kHz
- Weight: 9.7 g
- Load impedance: 100 ohms min.
- Accessories included: Mount screws (silver) - 2, mount nuts (silver/gold) - 2, stylus cleaning brush

Reviews
High Fidelity

DENON DL-110 DL 110 DL110 PHONO CARTRIDGE

The Denon DL-110 phono cartridge was designed to enable more people to enjoy the exquisite sound quality of moving coil (MC) phono cartridges. Developed using Denon's state of the art MC cartridge manufacturing know-how, the Denon DL-110 is a moving coil cartridge capable of producing a high output of 1.6mV which is equivalent to the output of moving magnet (MM) phono cartridges. The Denon DL-110 phono cartridge can thus be directly connected the MM phono input of your amplifier or receiver without the need for a step-up transformer, head amplifier or pre-preamp.

State-of-the-art technology has been employed in the minute sections of the Denon DL-110 phono cartridge such as the traditional cross-shape armature, dual-construction cantilever and the vibration-center one point support method using suspension wires. This enables balanced characteristics and excellent sound quality comparable to higher priced cartridges.

With the Denon DL-110 original vibrating section and its two-way damping method, sound quality fluctuations due to temperature differences are kept to a minimum. In addition, the overall weight has been reduced by simplifying the magnetic circuit thus improving the tracing ability of the stylus against record warps.

The Denon DL-110 phono cartridge uses a special elliptical stylus with a rectangular cross section of 0.1 x 0.2 mm. It reaches deep into the record groove to extract detail while bypassing groove wall beaten and shorn by age, misuse and misalignment. You'll probably be surprised by how quiet your LPs sound.

Proper setup is very important with the Denon DL-110 phono cartridge. Take the time to get it right and you'll be rewarded with its naturally sweet tonal balance, ambiance, quick transient response, and exquisite articulation. If you've been wondering why many have been captivated by moving coils, the Denon DL-110 will offer you many positive reasons why.

Denon DL-110 Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving coil
- Output voltage: 1.6mV
- Frequency response: 20Hz-45kHz
- Recommended load impedance: over 47k ohms
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: Within 1db
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: > 25dB
- Stylus tip: Special elliptical solid diamond with 0.1 x 0.2 mm rectangular cross section
- Compliance: 8 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Recommended tracking force: 1.8mN +/- 3mN (1.8g +/- 0.3g)
- Color: Red
- Weight: 4.8 g

Reviews
Positive Feedback Issue 15
Audiogon Forum
AudioReview Forums

"The DL-110 is the best budget cartridge I have yet heard after a couple years of trying a handful of budget carts."
- DK