Linn Kendo, Cartridge.

Introducing The 2022 Edition.. The Linn Kendo – An elite performance moving coil cartridge.

Kendo is the eager apprentice to Ekstatik’s master swordsman; sharing the same values and picking up many of its traits along the way.

Kendo has a nickel-coated 7075-grade aluminium body. This specific grade of aluminium matches that of Linn's Arko tonearm, for which Kendo was designed to be the perfect partner. As previously mentioned, this facilitates superb material synergy throughout the tonearm system.

Also crucial to its high performance, Kendo features aluminium-bronze threaded inserts. Aluminium-bronze is often selected by bell foundries due to its desirable resonance behaviour. In Kendo, this alloy helps to convey much of the subtle warmth of vinyl playback, and levels its balance beautifully between crisp presentation and musical performance. Linn discovered that this musicality only improved as they worked to reduce the cartridge’s overall mass in search of an ultimate sweet-spot, which they found to be 7.6g.

Aluminium-bronze is not hard, but tough. This results in a desirable halo benefit: the contact area of the tightened screws mounting Kendo to a headshell is many times over that of a conventional steel-on-steel connection.

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