Cardas Myrtle Heart Silver Moving Coil Phono Cartridge

A Great Silver-wound Cartridge at Heart

The Cardas Myrtle Heart Silver phono cartridge, with its silver-wound, square Ruby jewel plate, is a highly evolved cartridge. The Myrtle Heart is extremely tough and reliable, as well as being one of the most musically pleasing of all cartridges. Its vented Myrtlewood body is a unique vibration damper for resonance control.

Myrtle Heart is a highly evolved cartridge built on a unique Benz chassis. A well-seasoned Myrtle Heart cartridge performs well at a high input impedance of 47 k, if the system is quiet. A lower impedance of 500-1.5 k works if the system tends to hum or the cartridge is not broken-in. The Myrtle Heart has a standard output of 0.3 mV, which is within the capability of most modern high quality pre-amps.

The character of the Cardas Myrtle Heart is lasting musicality. It is well engineered, strong and majestic. It brings the lasting luxury of detailed, life like music.

The Myrtle Heart Body

The Cardas Myrtle Heart body is made from America's most beautiful hardwood, the legendary Myrtle tree. Rarest of all woods, this symmetrical, broadleaf, evergreen Myrtle grows only in Southwestern Oregon (Coos and Curry counties) and the Biblical Holy Lands.

Myrtlewood has a very complex grain structure. The coloring of the wood is unique, varying from a sedate, satiny gray to riotously, multicolored grains of red, yellow, and brown, with many burls and shapes in its grain. Denser than Oak, unseasoned Myrtle logs will not float.

• Body: Machined Vented Myrtlewood
• Cantilever: Solid Boron rod, 0.28 mm diameter
• Stylus: Nude line-contact diamond, mirror polished

• Stylus Tip Radius: 5 x 120 µm
• Vertical Tracking Angle: 20-22 degrees
• Coil: Square Ruby jewel plate, silver wire
• Weight: 9.5 grams
• Output Voltage: 0.3 mV @ 3.54 cm/s
• Internal Impedance: 30 ohms
• Frequency Response: 10-50,000 Hz ± 1 dB
• Channel Balance: Better than 0.5 dB
• Channel Separation: Better than 35 dB @ 1 kHz
• Tracking Ability @ 315 Hz with a tracking force of 2 grams: >80 µm
• Dynamic Compliance: 15 µm/mN
• Recommended Loading: 500-47,000 ohms
• Optimum Tracking Force: 1.8-2.0 grams
• Recommended Tone arm Mass: Medium to high
• Recommended Break-in period: 40 hours