VASARI SHIBATA MM CARTRIDGE FROM GOLD NOTE

Gold Note of Italy has announced the release of a new member of the Vasari cartridges family, the Gold Note Vasari Shibata.

Designed, as the name suggests, by Mr Shibata in the 70s, this MM cartridge features a peculiar shape of the stylus, which is basically an evolution of the elliptical shape with extra special cuts on one end creating a hybrid asymmetrical shape.

Gold Note Vasari Shibata MM Cartridge

GOLD NOTE VASARI SHIBATA

The new Vasari Shibata, with its special stylus, allows for an increase of the total contact surface area with a reduction of total pressure into the vinyl groove. Gold Note says that the result is that the Vasari Shibata can produce a “nearly perfect playback reaching all areas of the vinyl groove but reducing the wear of both the record and the diamond”.

Gold Note Vasari Shibata MM Cartridge stylus

VASARI GOLD & RED

The Vasari cartridge is also available in the two original models, the Gold made of a duralumin body and the Red made of a special ultra-damping photopolymer body. Both feature an output level of 4mV. You can read the HiFi PiG review of them here from 2017.

Vasari Gold and Red

SPECIFICATIONS

TYPE MM Phono Cartridge

OUTPUT LEVEL 4mV

FREQUENCY RESPONSE 10-30000Hz

IMPEDANCE 500Ω

INDUCTANCE 500mH

CHANNEL SEPARATION > 25dB

SUGGESTED TRACKING WEIGHT 2g

CANTILEVER Aluminium

SUGGESTED LOAD 47kΩ

COMPLIANCE 10×10-6cm/dyne

DIAMOND Shibata

DIAMOND SIZE 3.5 x 20μm

COIL WIRE Copper

MAGNET Alnico

MOUNTING HOLE DIAMOND DISTANCE 9mm

WEIGHT 9.5g

BODY Duraluminium alloy

GOLD NOTE VASARI SHIBATA PRICE

The Gold Note Vasari Shibata MM Cartridge is available at an RRP of 690€.

HiFi Pig Says: We do enjoy Gold Note cartridges, looking forward to hearing what the Gold Note Vasari Shibata MM Cartridge can do.