Shelter’s flagship model, the Harmony, employs dry
carbon fiber (CFRP) for the body shell. CFRP delivers a superb acoustic
characteristic and is an ideal match with the newly designed motor
assembly. This combination is capable of delivering a great musical
reproduction even on records with less than optimal recordings.
Dry
carbon, unlike wet carbon, is designed in layers and unique molding.
Harmony, utilizing the CFRP, has a compression rating of 60-tons whereas
the conventional process is only 24-tons. The benefit is that the
resonant frequency of CFRP is outside of any audible frequency. In
addition, it provides a high degree of internal damping along with
superb isolation characteristics that protects the body from extraneous
vibration and noise. Each of these design features ensure that the
Harmony produces no coloration, and is whisper quiet and is
extraordinarily sensitive to even the most demanding and subtle musical
passages.
The motor assembly is an all-new design using hard aluminum
cantilever and OFC wiring. Hard aluminum allows us to firmly affix the
diamond stylus tip to a rigid, yet responsive bass. This allows the
stylus to receive and reproduce every bit of information within the
grooves of your favorite recordings. The length of the cantilever is
slightly shorter than typical to increase the strength to output voltage
ratio. Normal aluminum cantilevers often develop a tendency to make the
playback sound slightly bigger, but the stylus chip is designed to
line-contact with its curvature radius to 1.6 x 0.3mil (0.04 x 0.007mm)
to achieve the best balance and increased tracking capability at the
same time.
Harmony Specifications
Output voltage: 0.5mV
Stylus tip: 1.6 x 0.3mil line-contact
Impedance: 15 ohm
Weight: 8.5 gram
Tracking force: 1.4 to 2.2 gram
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