FS: Audio Note IQ3 Moving Magnet Cartridge

[Ammonite Audio]

This is my personal property, so not a trade sale. It's an Audio Note IQ3 moving magnet (MM) cartridge, which is possibly the best MM device that you can buy. It's naturally based on a Goldring, but it has a more substantial body, a titanium cantilever and fairly exotic Gyger 1 tip.

It has very few hours on it, most probably less than 100. It's boxed, in its original and lavish Audio Note packaging, with instruction booklet. I am only selling it because I do prefer my MC cartridges, and I have plenty of those to keep me going, so the IQ3 is really surplus to requirements.

These things are £612.75 new. I would like £325 for it.


Specifications, according to the instruction booklet:

Frequency Response 20Hz - 20kHz +/- 2dB
Channel Balance: 2dB 1kHz
Channel Separation: 25dB at 1kHz
Sensitivity: 6.5mV +/- 1.5dB 1kHz @ 5cm/sec
Static Compliance: 24mm/N lat. 16mm/N vertical
Equivalent tip mass: 0.45mg
Vertical Tracking Angle: 24 degrees
Stylus Radius: Gyger 1
Stylus Type: replaceable

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[CageyH]

Always fancied listening to one of these.
Funds won't allow it this month though. :(

[Ammonite Audio]

Always fancied listening to one of these.
Funds won't allow it this month though. :(

I can hold it for you:)

[CageyH]

A kind offer, but I would need to shift some gear first, so I will decline.
If it is still available when (if) I have the funds - that is a different matter.

[Ammonite Audio]

Sold STP