Name: Vertere Mystic II
SKU: VERTEREMYSTICII
Availability: InStock

Vertere Mystic II

£2,650.00

Engineered aluminium alloy body with three-point contact mounts ensures optimal alignment and maximum energy transfer for enhanced musical accuracy.

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Vertere Mystic II

Moving Coil Cartridge

The Vertere Mystic II Moving Coil Phono Cartridge is designed and manufactured to exacting standards to provide an uncompromising musical experience.

The body is machined from solid Aluminium alloy and mass tuned to the generator for optimum support and control of unwanted mechanical vibrations.

The body is threaded to accept the two supplied stainless steel thumb screws that are also designed for correct coupling of the cartridge body to the tonearm head-shell.

Machined on top of the Mystic cartridge are three specifically designed contact points that provide the exact mechanical coupling required by the Mystic cartridge.

In addition, there is also an alignment ridge on the front top that assists with the mounting of the Mystic to any complementing Vertere tonearm.

The generator utilises a Samarium-Cobalt magnet with a Cross coil made of pure copper wires.

The aluminium tube cantilever supports a Micro Elliptical bonded diamond stylus tip that is designed for maximum tractability without compromising on high frequency response or increased surface noise.

This provides a wide band frequency response of below 10Hz to 40kHz that coupled with an output of 0.5mV will provide a lifelike dynamic range with depth and precision.

Mystic II cartridges are covered by a 5-year extended warranty.

For the extended warranty to be valid, you must register the product with Vertere Acoustics.

Tri-Point Contact Design

Engineered aluminium alloy body with three-point contact mounts ensures optimal alignment and maximum energy transfer for enhanced musical accuracy.

Micro Elliptical Stylus Profile

Precision-ground stylus with aluminium cantilever delivers ultra-responsive tracking and detailed retrieval from every groove, even deep into the record.

Moving Coil Excellence

Low-mass generator assembly using rare earth magnets and precision-wound coils ensures outstanding dynamics, clarity and channel separation.

Vertere Mystic II Specifications

Generator Type — Moving Coil
Output — 0.45 mV (@ 5 cm/sec.)

Recommended Input Load — 850 Ω – 1 kΩ
0 pF – Max. 470 pF

Recommended Tracking Weight — 2.05 g (1.90 g – 2.10 g)

Frequency Response — 10 Hz – 40 kHz

Channel Separation — > 28 dB

Coil Resistance — 40 Ω

Dynamic Compliance — 12 × 10⁻⁶ cm/dyne (@ 100 Hz)

Magnet Type — Samarium-Cobalt

Mounting To Stylus — ≈ 7.8 mm

Head-shell To Stylus — ≈ 18.3 mm

Stylus — Micro Elliptical Diamond
Bonded (7.5 × 15.5 μm)

Cantilever — Aluminium – Telescopic

Headshell Mounting — Special Vertere Tri-point
M2.5 Threaded Fixing Holes

Generator Fixing — Special Quad-Point Contact
Four Stainless “Spike” Screws

Weight — 11.0 g

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