TechDAS Unveils TDC01-Dia MC Phono Cartridge

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TechDAS, a brand owned by Japan’s Stella, is famous for manufacturing high-quality cartridges, tonearms and other turntable-related equipment. This Japanese analogue specialist has just added the TDC01-Dia cartridge to its top-of-the-line Moving Coil TDC-01 cartridge line. The new TDC01-Dia is claimed by TechDAS to be a world-first design employing a ‘Tapered Pipe Diamond Cantilever’. Combined with its titanium housing, the TDC01-Dia’s architecture makes for a superbly rigid, non-resonant, and lightweight construction which targets excellent tracking accuracy, exceptional detail retrieval and overall excellent sonic performance. The construction is also claimed to provide; “a higher speed to transmit vibration from the record groove to the coils without damping”.

The unique Tapered Pipe Diamond Cantilever took the TechDAS engineers three years of Research and Development to create the shaping and machining required, using advanced laser processing technology, in order to meet their performance targets.

The moving coil (MC) TDC-01 claims a frequency response from 10Hz to 50kHz with an output voltage of 0.45mV (1kHz) and an Internal impedance of 1.4 ohms. The suggested load impedance is between 100 ohms to 200 ohms while the recommended tracking force is between 2.0 g and 2.5 g. Channel separation is quoted as 30dB at 1kHz with a channel balance of 0.5dB at 1kHz.