Please find reviews and sepcifications below
Benz LP S-Class Specifications
•Output: .36mV
•Stylus: 5×120µm
•Impedance: 38 ohms
•Loading range: >400 ohms
•Weight: 16g
•Compliance: 15cu
•Tracking force: 1.8-2g
“6 Moons” Online Review
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/benz/1.html
“I don’t think we yet have developed the language to capture what the Benz itself does…” “The longer you listen to the cartridge—and the more it warms up—the more revealing it becomes in the sense of warmly inviting you in to listen more deeply to the textures, harmonics, and little subtleties that make up the basic foundations of the music itself.”
“Everything you hear reproduced by the LP S-MR is translucent.” – Harry Pearson, “The Absolute Sound”
“First, yes, there has been a changeover with the LP S. Benz has gone to a micro-ridge stylus (thus the “MR”). Second, so far I think the Benz LP S-MR is one of the two or three best cartridges I’ve had in my system. It is outstanding.” – Jonathan Valin, “The Absolute Sound”
“STEREOPHILE” Class A Recommended Component , review below:
Weighing a relatively heavy 16.4gm and with an open-construction body of aged ebony on a brass frame, the LP S moving-coil cartridge is ideal for use in tonearms of medium to high mass. Its generating system includes a 0.28mm-diameter cantilever of solid boron; a nude, mirror-polished, line-contact stylus; and a square plate-coil system of jewel-grade ruby. The LP S offered smooth treble, a supple bottom end, and “profoundly well-developed instrumental textures,” for a sound that leaned toward romance, said MF. It lacked, however, the tightly drawn images, sharp transients, and exceptional transparency of the Ortofon MC A90. (Vol.32 No.12)
“HI FI News” Magazine Review
http://www.hifinews.co.uk/news/article/benz-micro-mc-lp-s-pound;2490/9606/
