London Decca

Jubilee cartridge

Retail $2,495 CDN

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The new London Decca Jubilee has retained and enhanced the legendary musical realism of its predecessors, but also achieves "world-class" tracking ability, at only 1.8 grams (VTF). A damped tone arm is not necessarily required, and unlike most high quality moving-coil designs, the electrical output level of the London Decca Jubilee is among the highest- 5mV, needing no pre-preamp or step-up transformer.

The London Decca Jubilee is individually hand crafted, using coils wound of oxygen-free copper conductors and high flux samarium cobalt magnets. Its cartridge body is machined by computer from a solid block of aluminum, and shaped to hold the motor assembly and the polished, natural grain--oriented, line contact diamond stylus with absolute precision. This acoustically inert cartridge body contributes to the Jubilee's low-coloration music reproduction, and provides a firm flat mounting surface with internal threads to facilitate installation.

"...unrivalled dynamics...the best phono cartridge I've tried. The dynamic expression was revelatory, even state-of-the-art...spine-tingling excitement...textbook reading of pace, rhythm and timing...sets an example to all."
Jubilee, Stereophile, June 1995

"Amazing! Incredible! Fantastic! These were the words that sprang to mind when auditioning the London Jubilee...the sheer detail and vividness of the Jubilee bowled me over...brings music to life like no other."
Jubilee, Hi-Fi Choice, April 2001.

Channel balance................................................................ 1dB at 1kHz
Channel separation........................................................... 25dB at 1kHz
Compliance.................................................. Lateral 15 x 10(-6) cm/dyne
...................................................................Vertical 10 x 10(-6) cm/dyne
DC resistance................................................... 2000 Ohms per channel
Frequency range........................... 20Hz to 40kHz (20Hz to 22kHz +3dB)
Generator coil conductors......................................... Oxygen-free copper
Inductance............................................................... 130mH per channel
Input capacitance....................................... 100 to 300pf (optimum 220pf)
Input impedance....................... Nominal 47k Ohms (optimum 33k Ohms)
Magnets........................................................ High flux samarium cobalt
Mass..................................................................................... 10 grams
Output......................................................................... 5mV at 5cm/sec
Stylus................................................................... Diamond line contact
Vertical tracking angle.......................................................... 15 degrees
Vertical tracking force................................................... 1.8 to 2.2 grams