INTRODUCING THE: EMPIRE EDR.9 PHONO CARTRIDGE.
IT SOUNDS AS GOOD ON A RECORD AS IT DOES ON PAPER.
It was inevitable ….
With all the rapid developments being made in today's high fidelity technology, the tremendous advance in audible performance in Empire's new EDR.9 phono cartridge was bound to happen.
And bound to come from Empire, as we have been designing and manufacturing the finest phono cartridges for over 18 years.
Until now, all phono cartridges were designed in the lab to achieve certain engineering characteristics and requirements. These lab characteristics and requirements took priority over actual listening tests because it was considered more important that the cartridges "measure right" or "test right"-so almost everyone was satisfied.
Empire's EDR.9 (for Extended Dynamic Response) has broken with this tradition, and is the first phono cartridge that not only meets the highest technological and design specifications-but also our demanding listening tests-on an equal basis. In effect, it bridges the gap between the ideal blueprint and the actual sound.
The EDR.9 utilizes an L. A. C. (Large Area Contact) 0.9 stylus based upon--and named after--E. I. A. Standard RS-238B.
This new design, resulting in a smaller radius and larger contact area, has a pressure index of 0.9, an improvement of almost six times the typical elliptical stylus and four times over the newest designs recently introduced by several other cartridge manufacturers. The result is that less pressure is applied to the vulnerable record groove, at the same time extending the bandwidth-including the important overtones and harmonic details.
In addition, Empire's exclusive, patented 3-Element Double Damped stylus assembly acts as an equalizer. This eliminates the high "Q" mechanical resonances typical of other stylus assemblies, producing a flatter response, and lessening wear and tear on the record groove.
We could go into more technical de tail, describing pole rods that are laminated, rather than just one piece, so as to reduce losses in the magnetic structure, resulting in flatter high frequency response with less distortion. Or how the EDR.9 weighs one gram less than previous Empire phono cartridges, making it a perfect match for today's advanced low mass tonearms.
But more important, as the EDR.9 cartridge represents a new approach to cartridge design, we ask that you consider it in a slightly different way as well. Send for our free technical brochure on the EDR.9, and then visit your audio dealer and listen.
Don't go by specs alone.
That's because the new Empire EDR.9 is the first phono cartridge that not only meets the highest technological and de sign specifications-but also our demanding listening tests.
Empire Scientific Corp., Garden City, N.Y.11530
(Source: Audio magazine, Feb. 1979)
Also see:
Empire EDR.9 Magnetic Phono Cartridge (Equip. Profile, Sept. 1979)
Empire Scientific phono cartridges (Nov. 1978)
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