Aidas
Aidas Pure Gold Coil Series AU Baby Mammoth Tusk Cartridge
Aidas Pure Gold Coil Series AU Baby Mammoth Tusk Cartridge
Ivory
22 Saint Kilda Road
22 Saint Kilda Road
Suite 2.02
St Kilda VIC 3182
Australia
Country of origin: Lithuania
Aidas Mammoth Tusk (Baby)
AU Series Stereo MC Phono Cartridge
Gold series cartridges are the Top performers in Aidas cartridges portfolio. Their uniqueness are of different body materials and 24kt pure Gold coils. Gold plated coils do sound very natural and detailed.
The Aidas Gold PL cartridges come with 2 different bodies: Tru-stone Blue River Agate and Mammoth tusk body. . Tru-stone is a unique beautiful artificial stone consisting of more than 85% actual stone.
The Aidas Mammoth Gold is the newest and the most advanced of the Aidas cartridges. The cartridge’s body is made with the ivory from 21,000 year old Siberian wooly mammoth tusks.
Mammoth is the best and most unique material Aidas could ever find for his top cartridges. Better than stone, better than exotic wood or metals.
It has very unique properties, sound wise. It was even compared to other types of bone / horn ( deer) material and is far more superior. It is super strong and damps unwanted vibrations perfectly.
Mammoth Tusk Body
Aidas Baby Mammoth and Aidas Mammoth Gold cartridges are the newest and most advanced ones in Aidas line. The body of Aidas Mammoth cartridges is made of 21,000-yearold Siberian Woolly Mammoth tusk.
Mammoth tusk is the best and most unique material Aidas could ever find for his top cartridges. According to his experimental data, as it has very unique properties sound-wise, it is better than true-stone, exotic wood or light metals. It was even compared to other types of bone / horn (deer) material and is far more superior. It is super strong and damps unwanted vibrations perfectly. Compared to deer or buffalo horn material Mammoth is denser - no air bubbles and fewer impurities. Purest possible. Rare and expensive. But still obtainable.
Every Mammoth cartridge body is a precision machined piece of art handmade of various parts of Mammoth tusk (pics below). Bodies may have:
• hairline cracks (glued, stabilised and polished);
• color differences;
• dark grooves.
All above is considered distinctive and original aesthetic features of each cartridge and therefore there are no 2 uniform Mammoth cartridge bodies – they are all unique.
Body | Mammoth Tusk |
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Cantilever | Namiki / Adamant boron |
Stylus | MicroRidge |
Output | 0.28mV |
Magnet System | Somarium Cobalt |
Tracking Force | 1.9g. |
Compliance Lateral | 13 um/mN |
Cartridge Weight | 6.8g. |
Recommended Loading | 100 – 1,000 ohms |
Coils | Pure 999 Gold 0.04 mm |
Mount | thread M2.5x0.45, 1/2 inch / 12.7mm standard between the holes |
Coil Impedance DC | 3 |
Recommended Tonearm Mass | Light |