MoFi UltraGold MC Phono Cartridge

Description

Precision crafted in Japan and voiced by Spiral Groove founder Allen Perkins, the UltraGold MC offers analogue lovers the exceptionally wide frequency response, tonal richness, lifelike separation, and true-to-the-source faithfulness of a class-leading audiophile MC design.

Guided by proprietary inputs from Allen Perkins, superlative manufacturing unites UltraGold MC’s nude Shibata diamond profile stylus and boron cantilever with a neodymium magnet and Permendur yoke, housed within an ultra-low resonance aluminium/brass extrusion to deliver palpable low-end energy, high transient responsiveness, and compelling openness and transparency from vinyl discs. In essence, UltraGold MC exists to liberate the astonishing musical glory of Mobile Fidelity Original Master Recordings and other reference pressings.

For all its exceptional audiophile endowment, UltraGold MC is easy to set up in virtually any system: the threaded cartridge body permits mounting to a headshell or integral tonearm with just two screws: no bolts or nuts required.

Developed with the same philosophy that has produced world-famous Mobile Fidelity reissues over four decades, UltraGold MC promises to be the gold standard of MC cartridges in its class.

Specifications

Type – Dual Moving Coil Stereo
Weight – 7.3g
Tracking Force – 1.8-2.2g
Recommended Load – > or = 100 Ohm
Static Compliance – 40 x 10e-6/dyne
Dynamic Compliance – 10 x 10e-6/dyne
Frequency Response – 20 – 35,000Hz
Stylus – Shibata
Output Voltage – 0.4mV
Colour – Gold and Black

Review Links:

Mofi UltraGold MC cartridge, Hi Fi News February 2022, OUTSTANDING, SEE REVIEWS AND DOWNLOADS

Mofi UltraGold MC cartridge, Hi Fi Choice February 2022, EDITOR’S CHOICE, SEE REVIEWS AND DOWNLOADS

MoFi UltraGold MC cartridge, OUTSTANDING, Hi Fi News, Feb 2022

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Feb 22’s issue of audiophile bible Hi Fi News welcomes MoFi’s long anticipated UltraGold Moving Coil cartridge with an Outstanding badge. “Whatever adjectives the entire canon of hi-fi begs to use, one stands proud for the UltraGold and that is ‘fluid’. It’s not just the smooth conveying of liquidity in The Beach Boys album. It’s the consistency in the dynamic swings from soft to loud and back, the wholeness of the soundstage, the nature of the air around the instruments... "Chalk up another MoFi bargain” says Ken Kessler!

MoFi UltraGold MC cartridge, EDITOR'S CHOICE, Hi Fi Choice, Feb 2022

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Following an ‘outstanding’ gong in Hi Fi News, MoFi’s UltraGold MC cartridge has just bagged an exclusive Editor’s Choice badge in the Feb’s issue of Hi Fi Choice! “Who better than a record label to develop a cartridge”, says the mag “and when some top-end carts go on sale for in excess of £15k, the UltraGold, at one-tenth of that? The answer is another MoFi triumph.