AIDAS Cartridge AU-CU Series AFRICAN BLACKWOOD MC Cartridge
Product code: BLACKWOODAIDAS Cartridge AU-CU Series AFRICAN BLACKWOOD MC Cartridge
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Fusion of the fine wood "African Blackwood" and gold plating
Profound silence brought by high-density wood. The gold-plated coils create a colorful analog world.
Product Concept
In AIDAS' "Gold PL Series," the AFRICAN BLACKWOOD model pursues excellent musical resonance.
African Blackwood (Granadilla), which is also used for high-end wind instruments such as clarinets and oboes, is extremely dense among woods and has a characteristic that allows it to resonate beautifully without losing acoustic energy.
Main Features
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African Blackwood: Rich resonance like an instrument
Uses rare, hard, and stable wood for the body. Unlike metal or stone, it achieves an organic and deep soundstage. It provides the unique pleasure of a wooden body, which moderately releases unnecessary vibrations while clearly drawing out the "core" of the music. -
Gold-plated copper coil: Natural tone balance
The gold-plated copper coil, a feature of the series, achieves both strong low frequencies and delicate high-frequency resolution. While inheriting AIDAS' philosophy of avoiding coloration, it allows for natural music playback without listener fatigue. -
24K Gold-pressed connection pins: Pursuing signal transmission purity
Adopts "24K gold-pressed pins" with a thicker layer of gold than typical plating. Minimizes signal degradation at the contact with the lead wire and maintains the thickness and freshness of the sound over a long period.
AIDAS: Mounting Style and Compatibility
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Bolt-on thread method
The AIDAS cartridge body has precision threading (M2.5). It can be smartly installed with just a bolt from above without using a nut, greatly reducing installation stress when handling expensive cartridges. -
Half-inch mount
Adopts the world standard 12.7mm screw hole spacing. Compatible with head shells from various manufacturers, offering a highly versatile design. -
Optimized for tonearm
The balance between dead weight and appropriate stylus pressure has been optimized to maximize the original performance of AIDAS in many modern "medium mass tone arms".
| body material | african blackwood |
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| coil material | 6N gold plated copper (0.035mm) |
| Power generation method | MC (Moving Coil) |
| magnet | AlNiCo5 |
| cantilever | Namiki / Adamant Boron |
| stylus | micro ridge |
| output voltage | 0.28mV |
| coil impedance | 3.5 ohms (DC) |
| compliance | 12um/mN (Lateral) |
| Appropriate stylus pressure | 1.9g |
| own weight | 8.1 - 10g |
| terminal pin | 24K gold press (brass base) |
| mounting hole | Threaded (M2.5 / 12.7mm spacing) |
| Recommended load impedance | 100 – 1,000 ohms |
| Recommended tonearm execution mass | medium |
Stereo Times publication review
Aidas Cartridges was highly praised for its outstanding ability from an early stage in the US audio media ``Stereo Times''.
The reviewer listened with a full-fledged analog system consisting of a George Warren turntable and an Abis SA-1.2 tone arm. ``It reminds me of why I love analog music, something I could never get to with CDs—it has an outstanding groove tracking ability that brings out the details of the recording with amazing precision.''
Patricia Barber's Café Blue (MoFi 45rpm version) is highly praised for its warmth and life reminiscent of the great tube amps of yesteryear, without sacrificing any low-frequency resolution or stage depth. In Ahmad Jamal's live album, the French announcement voice was played so holographically that the reviewer's wife who was upstairs thought that someone was speaking into the room using a microphone, and jumped in. ``Strings vibrate, percussion instruments sound like the sound of objects hitting objects, and vocals have a breathy feel to them.'' He reports that Aidas' unique strength is ``the ability to strip away non-musical artifacts and invite the listener directly into the soul of the song and music.''
``If this cartridge is any indication of the quality of the Aidas line, these are going to take the world by storm.'' That prophecy is now becoming reality.
LP Magazin (Germany) publication review
A highly rated review was also published in Germany's prestigious analog magazine "LP Magazin".
The reviewer tried it in combination with a 12-inch Reed 1-X tonearm, a prestigious arm also from Lithuania. It took a few hours to age, but once it came into its own, Ella Fitzgerald's fine vibrato came to the foreground, and she reported that her vocals were powerful and convincing.
The sound character is "notably smooth and creamy". Ella Fitzgerald's "Ella Swings Lightly" offers a "goosebump-inducing, natural and expressive vocal reproduction." It is said that on Thelonious Monk's 1964 live album, the wind instruments shined beautifully, creating a three-dimensional sound field that gave each performer plenty of space and leeway. Lows are tight and disciplined, highs are natural, well-integrated, and moderate.holographic soundstage- The tonality was evaluated to be perfectly balanced across the entire band.
The reviewer concludes: 'With sophisticated tonality, remarkably smooth and creamy expression, and delicately expansive spatial representation, this is an exceptionally powerful debut from an emerging cartridge manufacturer. It’s not cheap, but it is very well made.'
