Ikeda Labs

9TT Moving Coil

The Ikeda 9TT is specially designed and developed with the concept that a cartridge should be easier to handle, by inheriting the characteristics of competent ability for the sonorous expression power attained with the former cantileverless IKEDA 9 series cartridges.

The body is made of a solid aluminum alloy by lathing a piece of aluminum precisely one by one in order to hold the generator unit firmly.

The cantilever is made of a double layered duralumin pipe in order to reduce its actual weight and any possible warping affecting the sound badly, in addition to gaining stiffness.

The sound sources picked up by the line contact architecture of the stylus chip will be precisely delivered to the magnetic coils.  In addition, thanks to the highly efficient Permalloy core, low impedance coils, very strong neodymium magnet and an ideally shaped magnet yoke, it is possible to purely reproduce the sound without having any redundant coloring of sound.

In order to pick up the hidden sound elements and a glamor of sounds itself engraved on LPs/SPs in addition to the fulfillment for various conditions required for the best phono cartridge as a reproducing device, we always  spend plenty of time to fabricate and then make an alignment repeatedly.

Specifications

Electromagnetic Generator:
Moving Coil (MC)

Output Voltage:
0.16mVrms (1kHz 35.4mm/sec. at 45°peak)

Coil Impedance:
2.0 ohms (1kHz)

Appropriate Stylus Force:
1.8 grams ±0.2 grams

Frequency Response:
10Hz - 45kHz

Channel Separation:
Over 27dB (1kHz)

Channel Balance:
Within 1.0dB (1kHz)

Stylus Chip:
Solid Diamond, Line Contact

Cantilever:
Double layered duralumin pipe

Weight:
10 Grams

Connecting Terminals:
Left Channel, White (hot), Blue (ground)
Right Channel, Red (hot), Green (ground)