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CLEARAUDIO - MAESTRO WOOD CARTRIDGE

The Clearaudio Maestro - One of the World's Best Moving Magnet Cartridge Designs!

A big step up in performance from the heralded Virtuoso Wood, the Clearaudio Maestro furthers that design with a new integral wood body for greater rigidity. This results in increased dynamics and tighter image focus. The Maestro is fitted with their best solid boron rod cantilever and Trygon P2 stylus (the same stylus used on the famous Claeraudio Insider MC cartridge!) for resolving power previously unimaginable in a MM cartridge. The Maestro’s healthy output and freedom from resistive loading concerns make it the perfect choice for anybody searching for great sound that rivals MC designs which cost a great deal more. Our highest recommendation!

 “The Maestro Wood is a sweet-talker and an addictively balanced performer. The Maestro takes you there like none of the other MM cartridges I’ve recently heard….[it] transports the listener into another world – exactly how I like my music!”
– Neil Gader, The Absolute Sound, October 2008

“The boron-cantilevered Maestro is the best-sounding MM cartridge I've heard…it produced remarkably rich, round orchestral colors, impressive dynamic swings, and big, ballsy images – the kind that MM aficionados claim make MCs sound wimpy and undernourished!"
– Michael Fremer, Stereophile, June 2007

Specifications:
Frequency range: 20 Hz to 20 kHz
Output voltage: ~3.6 mV
Channel separation: >30 dB
Channel balance: <0.2 dB
Trackability: >90 µm
Recommended tracking force: 2.2 g
Electrical impedance: 0.66kOhms
Load resistance: 47kOhms
Load capacitance: 100 pF
Cantilever: Boron
Total mass: 7.0 g (wood)