The Acoustic Signa­ture MCX2 is a modern moving-coil cart­ridge, manu­fac­tured accor­ding to the latest tech­no­logies – the opti­mal partner for our NEO tone­arm series. A ‘nude’ elliptical stylus assu­ring pre­cise tracking results, high-purity silver coils and a CNC-milled and reso­nance-opti­mized chassis deve­loped accor­ding to the finite ele­ment design princi­ple form the basis for a souve­reign soun­ding cartridge.

“The MCX2 has a slight frequency drop towards the higher regis­ters. This only resul­ted in a mini­mally sono­rous, velvety timbre, without sacri­ficing reso­lution or trans­parency. But think of this in the context of the energe­tically dense and robust play­back of the turn­table, with its precisely stag­gered spatial repre­sen­tation oriented towards the front edge of the stage. The MC pickup then probably has exactly the right tuning, as it counter­acts over­pre­sence and fore­grounding.”

(Test with Maximus NEO & TA-500 NEO)

Stereo07/2021by Matthias Boede

“The TA5000 and MCX2 com­bina­tion proves to be a very inte­res­ting tandem with great poten­tial, not only because of its price-per­for­mance ratio”

(MCX2 with the Montana and TA‑5000)

HiFi & Records01/2020by Marius Donadello

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“…The MCX2 some­how changes … every­thing. As if the musi­cians had per­for­med through an only half opened stage curtain before. Now the curtain has fallen com­ple­tely and the view is wide open and deep. Espe­cially the lower tones … grew in subs­tance and rich­ness.”

(MCX2 with the Maximus SE and TA‑2000)

Image Hifi02/2020by Heinz Gelking

“From my past expe­rience, not many cart­ridges can offer such a spicy rock music expe­rience.”

(MCX2 with the Double X 2019 and TA‑2000)

Audio­techni­que08/2019by Martin Leung