Van den Hul The Condor MC Moving Coil Cartridge

The CONDOR is a top performance custom handbuilt moving coil phono cartridge. A crossbreed of The FROG and The COLIBRI (two of the world’s finest cartridges) featuring the best of both and available in a wide range of versions matching the personal demands of the customer.

A.J. van den Hul’s newly created phono cartridge, named The CONDOR, is a very innovative moving coil design specifically made for very high replay quality. It is the first cartridge in the world that doesn’t have any mechanical signal transfer to the tone arm or the other way around: No sound coloration and no background noise!

The CONDOR is based on The FROG and uses the design philosophy of The COLIBRI: take away from the body what you don’t need, thus making the cartridge lighter and with fewer materials to resonate and influence the sound in a negative way. The CONDOR has no front-pole and employs a very strong magnet. The suspension is an advanced three rubber system. While being more robust in construction and having a healthier output, The CONDOR exhibits the same highly refined sonic properties as The COLIBRI: a very high resolution combined with an extremely good spatial reproduction. The CONDOR is made for many different arms without any problem. Tracking is excellent and the top-end is very smooth.

Versions:

• High output, most suitable for jazz and pop music
• Output voltage: 0.55 mV/channel

• Low output, most suitable for classical music
• Output voltage: 0.32 mV/channel

• High output, most suitable for jazz and pop music
• Output voltage: 0.45 mV/channel

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