{"id":123560,"date":"2021-02-20T14:31:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T14:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=123560"},"modified":"2021-04-05T06:04:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T05:04:46","slug":"lmc-5-luxmans-first-mc-cartridge-in-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/lmc-5-luxmans-first-mc-cartridge-in-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"LMC-5: Luxman’s first MC cartridge in 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time in nearly 40 years, Luxman introduces a\u00a0new MC cartridge, the LMC-5.\u00a0Previous cartridges – LMC-1 and LMC-2 – came out in 1981-1982.\u00a0In developing the new product, Luxman sought to create a head that can accurately follow the path, absorbing the slightest deformation.<\/p>\n

It took a long time to design the cartridge,\u00a0using the\u00a0same principles that Luxman applies to its amplifiers and other components – including careful listening at every stage.\u00a0As stated, the result is a cartridge that ideologically develops the character inherent in the LMC-1 and LMC-2 with the help of modern technology.<\/p>\n

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The needle holder is aluminum, it has a Shibata sharpened diamond needle, which, according to the developers,\u00a0provides<\/a>\u00a0less noise and extracts more information from the recording.\u00a0The large symmetrically wound spool reduces the difference in sensitivity between the channels – it also helps to reduce the weight of the cartridge.\u00a0The magnet itself is samarium-cobalt.<\/p>\n

Protection against noise and vibration has also received a lot of attention.\u00a0A special surface magnetic system reduces the level of external noise, and the needle holder is additionally protected by an external casing against unwanted vibrations.<\/p>\n

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Head body – aluminum, painted in the corporate red shade.\u00a0The inner walls of the cabinet are curved – again, to reduce resonances and reflected sounds.\u00a0The LMC-5 weighs 8.5 g, the recommended clamp is 2.1\u20132.2 g, the output voltage is 0.4 mV.\u00a0The head works in the range from 10 Hz to 35 kHz.<\/p>\n

In Japan, sales are expected to start in March, the Luxman LMC-5 will cost 230,000 yen.<\/p>\n

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For the first time in nearly 40 years, Luxman introduces a\u00a0new MC cartridge, the LMC-5.\u00a0Previous cartridges – LMC-1 and LMC-2 – came out in 1981-1982.\u00a0In developing the new product, Luxman sought to create a head that can accurately follow the path, absorbing the slightest deformation. It took a long time to design the cartridge,\u00a0using the\u00a0same […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":123564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-123560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}