Helios

MSRP (USA)

7,999.95

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Made in the USA. Rebuild Price? $850 ~ Less than 20% of MSRP - The Helios features an industry first: A 10 year free retipping service for stylus wear to the original owner.

Our new medium output design, the Helios is otherwise technically identical to the Hyperion. The Hyperion is the cartridge of choice for the most esteemed audio equipment manufacturers. Why? Because when they exhibit their gear at Hi-Fi shows, they want their turntable, amplifier or speaker systems to sound the very best that they can! Peter Ledermann‘s radical design utilizes an actual “cactus spine” for the cantilever. The naturally tapered shape, stacked columnar fibers and desiccated resin damping fit the exact parameters of the perfect cantilever: Low mass, extreme rigidity, internal damping, and tremendous strength. Also available in a Dual Compliance Design for older Linear Tracking turntables as the Hyperion LT. Hyperion are offered with a choice of CL or OC-CL stylus.

Also available in dual-coil mono ($300 additional).

7999.95

Warranty

10 Years

Specifications

Output

Medium

Output Voltage

1.1 mV

Available As Dual Coil Mono

Yes ($300 additional)

Additional Specifications

Type:	• Fixed Coil / Moving Iron
Mount:	• Standard ½”
Cartridge Height:	• WITHOUT ALUMINA inserts = .675” top to stylus tip – with two half round alumina pieces for ground isolation add .010” • WITH center slot full round Alumina (use for azimuth adjustment if your arm does NOT allow such) = .733” Stylus: • Contact Line, Nude, 0.10 mm square
Stylus:	• Contact Line, Nude, 0.10 mm square
Radius of Curvature:	• Contact Line or Optimized Contact Line
Cantilever:	• Hand formed/treated selected Cactus "Spine"
Recommended Tracking Force:	• 1.8 - 2.2 g
Effective Tip Mass:	• 0.30 mg
Compliance:	• 12 μm/mN vertical, 7 μm/mN horizontal • 10 μm/mN (LT version)
Frequence Response:	• 20 - 20,000 Hz ± 1.0 dB
Channel Separation @ 1000 Hz:	• > 36 dB • > 34 dB (LT version) • N/A (Mono version)
Channel Separation @ 50 - 15,000 Hz:	• > 25 dB • N/A (Mono version)
Channel Difference:	• < 0.5 dB • < 1.0 dB (Mono version)
Output Voltage @ 5cm/sec:	• > 1.10 mV (MEDIUM)
DC Resistance (DCR):	• 110Ω
Coil Inductance per channel:	• 30 mH
Suggested Preamp Gain:	• 48 - 54 dB
Cartridge Weight:	• 10.25 g
Recommended Load Resistance:	• ≥ 1.5kΩ
Recommended Load Capacitance:	• n/a

Compatible Hardware

This Sound smith cartridge is certified to be fully compatible with the following hardware

SOTA Star Sapphire

SOTA Cosmos

They Said What?

I listened to this cartridge for about two months, for full break-in, even though it had about 30 hours on it as stated in a note with the delivery package. Several hundred hours later, I realized I was enjoying it more and more, and only then decided to run it through the test process.