Acoustical Systems Palladian Low Output Moving Coil Phono Cartridge

A recording captures a moment in time. A single event. Something that once happened in space and time. Something that happened once live. The fact – and sense - that most every recording contains music once created actually in something we call live is all too often missing when we play back that recording.  When we introduced the aiwon in early winter 2014 we were amazed by its subtle detail, by its ability to recreate tiny, tantalizing details – minor details which so immensely support the emotional impact and the sense of reality in a sonic picture. Over the next 18 months we experimented with a few samples of the aiwon trying to further fine tune for even more impact in performance. But it was not before we made subtle changes in some key inherent design parameters that we entered new ground. This was the birth of the design which then evolved in the spring of 2016 into the palladian. The palladian features a hand hammered Timet 1100 Titanium body of unequalled strength and w