Sussurro MKII

Sussurro MKII

The Sussurro MKII ~ critical design decisions, realized. Lowest internal mass. Best damping. Esoteric stylus and cantilever.

Inspired by Frank Schro?der, designed and individually hand made by Peter Ledermann, Soundsmith‘s Sussurro is a cartridge designed to specifically address the most intricate and critical issues of cartridge design.

The new Sussurro MKII has a newly designed moving iron element to reduce moving mass by 70%. The resulting extremely low stored inertia, with a newly engineered damping system and innovative energy distribution path, allows proper coupling into the tone arm. So what does all this mean?? Low jitter. Jitter? You probably thought that was a term reserved for digital systems.

Not so. Stylus jitter is responsible for loss of detail, and making a cartridge sound, well, like a cartridge.

Technical Specifications:

Stylus: Contact Line Nude, 0.100mm SQ Radius of curvature: OCL (Optimized Contour Contact Line) SELECTED Cantilever: Ruby Recommended Tracking force: 1.8 to 2.2 Grams.

Effective tip mass: 0.30 mg Compliance: 10?m/mN (low compliance) Frequency response: 20-20,000 Hz ± 1.0 dB Channel Separation (stereo only): 1000 Hz >34 dB 50-15,000 >25 dB Channel difference: <0.5 dB (Stereo) <1.0 dB (Mono) Output voltage: 0.4 mV Cartridge weight: 12.2 Grams Loading: ? 470 ?