Fidelix MITCHAKU Ceramic Headshell

The majority of existing headshells are structures that draw only one pin above the connection when mounted to the tone arm, but that creates a gap on the bottom side and if you fill the gap with the rubber ring, it becomes an elastic merger and becomes a dull sound. There is always a gap in the connection mouth, and even a gap of only 1 micron is acoustically affected.

The MITCHAKU headshell is a seesaw structure that draws the horizontal pin between the upper and lower pins with equal force, enabling adhesive connections to the tone arm without gaps. This ensures the same rigidity as the head shell integrated arm, and the sound quality is solid. When the horizontal is correctly matched, the separation becomes better and a wide sound field is reproduced.

Since it has a seesaw structure, the error is absorbed here. This completely adheres to the ring part of the head shell and the ring part of the arm.

Because ceramic material is alumina, it hits relatives of ruby and sapphire. Even with ceramic, it is easy to resonate when the horizontal part is lengthened, so it is minimal shape required. This is based on the experience of the designer and direct teaching from Yu Ikeda, founder of FR and IKEDA. The thickness of the finger is 2.5mm. The lead wire is PCOCCA which annealed PCOCC. The contact with the arm is durable rhodium plated and the angle of the head shell is adjustable.

MITCHAKU-A is a ceramic aluminum intermediate metal fitting. The intermediate metal fittings of stainless steel are MITCHAKU-S. The angled head shell for SAEC WE-8000/ST is MITCHAKU-W (a substitute for SAEC ULS-8X). It is MITCHAKU-0 to reverse this angle. This results in the effect of the pure straight arm even in the crooked arm, but fits when the mounting position of the arm can be moved about 30 mm backwards. The subtle angle difference per arm is adjusted by the attachment angle of the cartridge.

MITCHAKU-A, MITCHAKU-S
Photo bottom left MITCHAKU-W, bottom right MITCHAKU-0