Shelter 201 Moving Magnet Cartridge

Shelter  cartridges and step-up transformer are made by Mr. Ozawa, a former employee of Fidelity Research. For those too young to remember Fidelity, this company thrived during the seventies an eighties, making wonderful tonearms and cartridges that were renowned all over the world.  Hence, Yasuo Ozawa has a strong background in cartridge design and in 1986, he left to establish Shelter.  Yasuo Ozawa holds the notion that music, in its purest form, is art.  Instead of believing that a phono cartridge is a mechanical device for music reproduction, Yasuo  feels in his heart that his cartridges are indeed a musical instrument in their own right.

Lovingly and meticulously hand-crafted, Shelter cartridges are so precise that every nuance and every delicate passage of music is faithfully reproduced at a level that is unmatched in the audio world. Twenty years of painstaking, passionate and meticulous attention to microscopic detail has lead Shelter to the pinnacle of audio perfection.  More and more great reviews are now circulation on the internet about the outstanding qualities of theses cartridges once only available to wealthy Japanese audiophiles. Shelter's cartridges are renowned for their flawless construction and high-precision performance.

Shelter introduces a 300¤ Moving Magnet cartridge that stays true to this great company's "family sound." The unique quality of the 201 MM is that it offers tremendous musicality without being overly critical of the quality of vinyl it is tracking. This is an outstanding bonus when considering an entry-level analogue front end.

Technical specifications:

• Output Voltage: 4 mV at 1kHz 5cm/sec.
• Channel Balance: within 1dB at 1kHz
• Stylus Tip: 0.3 x 0.7mil Elliptical
• Weight 6.2g
• Tracking Force Range: 1.5 to 2.0g
• Recommended Load Impedance: 47k ohms