Version with gold monocrystal windings and amber body. It is Van Den Hul 's finest in pickup capsules, which means that it is one of the best products of its kind available on the world market and an incontestable reference to the Time to turn the content of the grooves of vinyl records into music. Created to enhance the sensational sound performance of the Grasshopper series and available in three versions with as many output levels, The Colibri is the ultimate expression of AJ van den Hul's talent and the consummation of a career dedicated body and soul to the search for the perfect reproduction of music recorded on the most popular of analogue media. Made completely by hand and to order, The Colobri is a small work of art of electromechanical engineering in which apparently insignificant elements have been taken into account to improve the quality of the final sound presentation: minimization and adaptation of the global magnetic circuit to reduce distortion, consequent reduction of the total mass of the assembly, elimination of the front pole piece thanks to the reduction in the length of the cantilever... all this combined with extreme care in the selection of materials. A simply sublime product.
Characteristics:
- Absolute reference pickup capsule with low/very low output, hand-made to order.
- Moving coil (MC) design with copper (XC and XC-HO versions) and gold (XG version) monocrystal windings.
- Minimized magnetic circuit to reduce distortion.
- Absence of front pole piece to reduce the length of the cantilever.
- Open construction free of resonances.
- Carbon-nylon (P), metallic (M) or amber (A) body to achieve optimal adaptation to the reading arm.
- Output 0.22 mV RMS (XC), 0.3 mV RMS (XC-HO) or 0.38 mV RMS XG).
- Van den Hul needle Type 1S.
- Frequency response: 5 - 65,000 Hz.
- Imbalance between channels less than 0.5 dB.
- Internal resistance: 21 Ohm (XC), 96 Ohm (XC-HO) or 36 Ohm (XG).
- Load impedance between 500 and 1,000 Ohm (all 3 versions).
- Support force between 1.35 and 1.5 g.
- Weight: 6 g for the version with a plastic body and 7 g for the version with a metal body.
- Consult about the different versions available for this capsule.
