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MEASURED PERFORMANCE
Frequency response of the Ace rolled down slightly toward high frequencies. Tracing loss on inner grooves will result in a warm balance toward inner grooves. The Ace remains very accurate and smooth in its response though, as before. Distortion levels were very low, due to vertical tracking angle measuring a correct 21 degrees. This resulted in just 1% vertical distortion. Output was high at 0.8mV so hiss will not be a problem with most phono stages. Benz suggest 1.8gms tracking force is ideal and a maximum of 2gms. Using this figure, tracking was fair but not up with the best, especially in the midband where the Ace managed 16cms/sec. It may well mistrack on strong vocals. The Ace SL remains an accurate and well engineered moving coil cartridge measurement shows. Its tracking ability is a little limited though. NK
Tracking force 1.7-2gms Weight 8.8gms Vertical tracking angle 21degrees Frequency response 20Hz - 20kHz Channel separation 29dB Tracking ability (300Hz) lateral 65µm vertical 45µm lateral (1kHz) 16cms/sec. Distortion (45µm) lateral 1.1% vertical 1% Output (5cms/sec rms) 0.83mV
FREQUENCY RESPONSE

Red - inner grooves
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