A Killer Budget Cartridge and a Great Tracker!

Designed for the budget audiophile, the Shure M97XE is a great all-around performer with its elliptical styli and Shure's exclusive viscous-damped Dynamic Stabilizer brush. It’s ideal for any budget turntable or any older vintage tables.

The Shure M97XE is a superbly tracking, neutral, smooth-sounding magnetic cartridge, designed to provide long hours of undistorted, easy listening, without fatiguing the ear or tiring the mind.

This cartridge is able to accurately reproduce very difficult musical passages, particularly in the high-frequency range, where audio modulations are the smallest and most concentrated, and stylus tip movement is consequently the most rapid. Its highly precise tracking ability and flat frequency response are made possible by Shure's unique Type II low-mass thin-wall aluminum alloy stylus cantilever, combined with a precision-crafted, finely polished, elliptical diamond tip.

The very low mass Shure M97xE cartridge shares several important features with the V15VxMR audiophile cartridge, to include:

Shure’s exclusive viscous-damped Dynamic Stabilizer, which maintains a uniform distance between the cartridge and the record under difficult playing conditions, such as those caused by warped records, or mismatched tonearm mass. When such stabilization is not required, the stabilizer brush can be locked up into its detent position, which, under ideal playing conditions, can provide even better sound quality.A die cast aluminum mounting block for secure, vibration-free attachment to the tonearm.

The SIDE-GUARD stylus protection system that helps prevent stylus damage if the cartridge accidentally slides across a record. This unique feature responds to side thrusts on the stylus by withdrawing the entire stylus cantilever and tip safely into the stylus housing before the cantilever can be damaged.

Tone Arm Mount: Standard 1/2'
Cartridge Type: Moving magnet
Features: Dynamic Stabilizer damper / de-staticizer
Die cast aluminum mounting block; Side Guard stylus protection system
Stylus Cantilever: Shure Type II - Very lowmass;
Heat-treated aluminum alloy / tubular
   1.0 mil wall thickness
   20 mil diameter
Diamond Stylus Tip: Polished natural gemstone: Elliptical;
Side x front radii: 0.2 x0.7 mil
Tracking Force: Effective at stylus tip
Range: 0.75 to 1.5grams
Optimum 1.25 grams
Trackability: At 1 gram tracking force (cm per second peakvelocity):
   1 kHz - 44
   10 kHz - 31
Amplitude:80 µm at 400 Hz
Frequency Response: Essentially flat from 20 to 22,000 Hz
Stereo Channel Balance: Within 2 dB
Channel Separation - Typical at:1 kHz - 25 dB

Shure M97xE User Guide (PDF, 1.2 MB)

Shure M97xE Brochure (PDF, 170 KB)

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