Vertere Sabre MM Cartridge

The Vertere Sabre MM Cartridge is the new high-end moving-magnet cartridge, sitting between the cheaper Magneto MM cartridge and the beautiful and award-winning Mystic MC cartridge.

Upgrading from a budget moving magnet cartridge can involve some difficult choices. The first, and probably most obvious choice is Moving Magnet or Moving Coil cartridge (MC) . Moving Coil is traditionally seen as the better choice, but it requires an additional 20 db or more of gain. Budget phono stages often struggle to do this well, if at all, and it must also be considered that the upgrade involving a new cartridge and a new MC phono stage, may be expensive.

MM cartridges often suffer from the majority having a reputation – that of being a bit lightweight and scratchy-sounding. Sabre is not such a cartridge as a demonstration will conclude. Sabre is detailed, dynamic and full-bodied and, most importantly, is highly musical and addictive.

Sabre’s body is precision machined from solid aluminium alloy with its final mass perfectly tuned to the generator for ideal support and control of unwanted mechanical vibrations.

In turn, the generator is uniquely fixed to the body via four spike screws that are precisely positioned and torqued for maximum rigidity and performance.

Cartridge mounting is via two machined threaded fixing holes. Also supplied with the cartridge are two Vertere stainless steel thumb screws designed to ensure correct coupling of the cartridge body to the tonearm head-shell.

Technical Specifications 

Type: Moving Magnet
Output Level: 4.0 mV
Recommended Phono Input Load: 47 kΩ, 100 pF – 220 pF
Recommended Tracking Weight: 2.0 g (1.9 g – 2.1 g)
Stylus: Elliptical Diamond 7.5 x 15.5 μm
Mounting: Special Tri-Point Contact, with M2.5 Threaded Fixing Holes
Generator Fixing: Special Quad-Point Contact, with M2.5 Stainless Spike Screws
Frequency Response: 15 Hz -25 kHz
Channel Separation: Better than 22 dB
Cantilever: Aluminium Alloy Tube
Dynamic Compliance: 10 x 10-6 cm/dyne
Coil Impedance: 1 kΩ (per Channel)
Weight: 10.3 g