Vertere Dark Sabre

£1,450.00

Square shank diamond assembly maximises alignment precision, consistency, and rigidity.

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Vertere Dark Sabre

Vertere Dark Sabre

What makes the Dark Sabre special?

Traditionally, since the passing of the Shure V15 Mk3 and maybe the Mk4 moving magnet cartridges, they have tended to be seen and heard as low and middle-market products.

In the last two or three years, a few more high-end moving magnet cartridges have been launched mainly to suit modern high-end integrated amplifiers – a relatively new market entrant.

Vertere’s Sabre, the high-end moving magnet cartridge, has been successful and brought a demand for an even further improved version.

With its single crystal, nude micro elliptical diamond and dual aluminium telescopic cantilever, Dark Sabre improves on Sabre significantly.

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Dark Sabre

·                   Aluminium alloy body CNC precision machined from solid then hard anodised black.

·                   The low-mass generator utilises an Alnico magnet with a low-mass cross coil made of pure virgin copper wires.

·                   The low-mass generator is mounted into the high-mass body using a Quad-Point Contact with Four Stainless’ Spike’ Screwsfor optimum support and control of unwanted mechanical vibrations.

·                   The body is mass-tuned to the generator for optimum support of unwanted energy transfer.

·                   The telescopic aluminium tube cantilever utilising two different aluminium materials – maximises stiffness without a massive high Q peak.

·                   Nude Micro Elliptical single crystal diamond stylus tip for maximum tracking ability without compromising the high-frequency response or increasing surface noise.

·                   Square shank diamond assembly maximises alignment precision, consistency, and rigidity.

·                   Alignment ridge on the front top that assists mounting Sabre to any Vertere tonearm.

·                   Three specifically designed contact points CNC machined into the top of the body that provide the exact mechanical coupling required.

·                   Wideband frequency response of below 14Hz to above 28kHz

·                   Output of 4.3mV will provide a lifelike dynamic range with depth and precision.

Specifications Vertere Dark Sabre

Specifications Vertere Dark Sabre sabre dark

Brand

Vertere Acoustics

Vertere Acoustics Reducing engineering to its fundamentals, to get you even closer to the original recording

When aiming to reproduce the complexities of music, it’s all too easy to introduce even greater complication in the engineering of audio equipment, putting in place one element to solve the problems of another until the whole design escalates into something fiendishly intricate – and expensive!

That’s not the Vertere way: coming at the whole problem with decades of audio and mechanical engineering experience, plus close collaboration with the recording and mastering industry, they step back, take a long hard look at the fundamentals, and look for simple, elegant solutions.

That may sound like a simple ‘less is more’ philosophy, but they prefer to look at it this way: the best audio equipment shouldn’t add anything to the original recording. Rather it should affect it as little as possible; bringing the listener ever closer to what the artist, producer and mastering engineer wanted you to hear.

Working with music industry professionals, they have access to master tapes and the acetates made in the production of records, and can compare the way the engineers heard them with the way they sound on their record players and via their cables. Vermeer Acoustics are constantly learning about how records are mixed, mastered, cut and pressed, and applying that knowledge to the way we design and build Vertere products.

The fundamentals of a record player are pretty much set in stone, in that a record needs to turn at a certain speed, and the stylus needs to follow the groove and allow the cartridge to convert its undulations into electrical signals with what is literally microscopic accuracy. However, just because those are the basics, that doesn’t mean there’s only one way to achieve them – which is why we take a long hard look, apply our ‘do no evil’ way of thinking, and endeavour to develop simpler, innovative solutions.

That’s why you’ll find their record players look different, both outwardly and in some of the engineering solutions you’ll probably never see. It’s all a matter of stripping down the engineering to those fundamentals by considering the absolute essence of how a record player works – from re-examining the way a cartridge gets its energy to ensuring it extracts maximum information from a groove that’s trying to throw it off track over a thousand times a centimetre.

So yes, the way they design and build their products is unique, but it’s not all about being eye-catching (even if we have to admit we think they look rather good): we hope you’ll find they sound just as unique, too, simply by bringing you even more of the music

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