Miyajima Shilabe
Product Code: MJC003
£2,900.00
ex-vat: £ 2,416.67
Noriyuki Miyajima has been producing extraordinary artisanal cartridges for decades. His designs, which feature an ingenious cross-coil moving coil generator and damping system, produce a full-bodied, supremely musical sound that recalls vintage audio systems, but with the high resolution and articulate frequency extremes of the finest modern cartridges. All Miyajima cartridges are low-compliance, and therefore suitable for high- and medium-mass tonearms, like the Thomas Schick and some of Frank Schröder’s designs.
The Miyajima Shilabe features a nude Shibata stylus, and is a Stereophile Class A recommended component.
Press Reviews
“The Miyajima Shilabe was consistently present, colorful, and downright chunky—that last adjective, I see, being the one that appears most frequently in my listening notes on the subject. All in all, my Shilabe experience was, by far, the closest I’ve heard a “normal” phono cartridge come to sounding like an Ortofon SPU or an EMT OFD. Again excepting the audio world’s very few remaining pickup heads, it was also the closest I’ve heard a stereo cartridge come to delivering the meat, the force, the sheer solidity of mono.” (Art Dudley)
“The Shilabe is a remarkable cartridge. It seems warm but is simultaneously resolved. There is beautiful deep bass and a strong slightly warm midrange. Noting else can really be added or subtracted. Unless I told you that beside the Air Tight PC-1 Supreme (but that’s another story) the Shilabe is really the best cartridge I’ve ever heard? Or that I liked it extremely much? Or that when we fit a turntable with it we forget about technology and concentrate on the music? Or that it will become a part of my reference system? Well I’m telling you now…”
Specs
- Body material
- African blackwood
- Stylus
- Nude Shibata
- Frequency response
- 20 Hz to 32 kHz
- Weight
- 9.7 g
- Tracking force
- 2.5 to 3.2 g, 3.0 g recommended
- Internal impedance
- 16 Ohms
- Recommended load
- 100 Ohms
- Output
- 0.23 mV
- Compliance
- About 8×10-6cm/dyne