No matter what system you own there's an Empire Phono Cartridge designed to attain optimum performance.
Detail, brilliance, depth.
This is the promise of each Empire Phono Cartridge and although there are many Empire models, each designed to meet specific turntable performance characteristics, every Empire cartridge contains the following features:
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Features:
Unique Fixed Unidirectional Three Magnet Structure
Molded Four-Pole Magnetic Assembly
Tubular moving Iron Design
Four Coil Hum Bucking Assembly Plus Electromagnetic Shielding
Aluminum Alloy Cantilever
Precision Ground Oriented Diamond Tips
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Details:
Every Empire cartridge uses 3 high energy ferrite magnets in the cartridge body to provide a high level of unidirectional flux.
Every Empire cartridge employs a four-pole magnetic assembly that is precisely aligned and locked in place by a high pressure injection molding pro cess... providing a uniform and orthogonal magnetic field.
By using a tubular high magnetic saturation iron armature we obtain an optimum ratio of output level to effective tip mass.
Using custom designed computer controlled machines, a precision drawn copper wire (thinner than human hair and longer than a football field) is wound onto a symmetrical 4 bobbin structure. By using 2 coils per channel a symmetrical electrical circuit is formed.
The Empire computer designed tubular cantilever provides optimum coupling of the diamond tip to the moving magnetic system resulting in minimum effective stylus tip mass.
Empire diamonds are precision ground, polished and inspected in house, using sophisticated television cameras and powerful microscopes to ensure accurate angular orientation.
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Benefits:
Higher and more linear output signal, immunity to bi-directional magnetic distortion, and improved hum and microphonic rejection.
Improved crosstalk and reduced distortion that is insensitive to tracking force.
Improved tracking ability and widened frequency response.
Improved rejection of hum and stray noise fields.
Superb low level tracking, reduced tracking distortion... plus enhanced wideband separation characteristics.
Reduced tracing phase distortion, together with reduced wear of both the record and the diamond tip.
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For the full story on Empire cartridges we suggest you "test-listen" to one at your local Empire dealer, and for information on our full line of cartridges, write for our brochure "How to Get the Most Out of Your Records": Empire Scientific Corp., Garden City, N.Y. 11530
(Source: Audio magazine, Nov. 1978)
Also see: Empire Scientific phono cartridges (Sept 1977)
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