Phono Cartridges | Vinyl Sound Toronto Canada

A phono cartridge is the transducer mounted at the end of the tonearm that converts the mechanical movement of the stylus tracing a vinyl record groove into an electrical signal, and the choice between moving magnet (MM) and moving coil (MC) designs, stylus profiles, and cantilever materials is the single most direct way to transform the sound of an existing turntable. Vinyl Sound in Toronto, Canada carries one of the most comprehensive phono cartridge selections in Canada, with authorised dealer status for Ortofon (Copenhagen, Denmark), Hana (Nagoya, Japan), Koetsu (Takayama, Japan), Dynavector (Tokyo, Japan), Grado (Brooklyn, USA), Nagaoka (Nagoya, Japan), Audio-Technica (Tokyo, Japan), Benz Micro (Oberglatt, Switzerland), Clearaudio (Erlangen, Germany), Gold Note (Florence, Italy), Goldring (Huntingdon, UK), Sumiko (Richmond, USA), Mobile Fidelity (Sebastopol, USA), Music Hall (Great Neck, USA), Pro-Ject (Vienna, Austria), European Audio Team (Vienna, Austria), Rega (Bridgwater, UK), and Thorens (Lahr, Germany). Our cartridge collection spans entry-level moving magnet cartridges including the Ortofon 2M Red, Ortofon 2M Blue, Grado Prestige Green and Red series, Nagaoka MP-110 and MP-200H, and Audio-Technica VM95E, through mid-range MM and high-output MC cartridges including the Ortofon 2M Black LVB, Hana EH, Hana EL, Hana SH, Hana SL, Nagaoka MP-300 and MP-500, Dynavector DV10X5 MKII, Sumiko Starling, and Gold Note Donatello Gold, to reference-grade low-output moving coil cartridges including the Hana ML, Hana Umami Red, Dynavector DV XX2 MKII, Dynavector Te Kaitora Rua, Dynavector DRT XV-1t, Benz Micro Lukaschek, Clearaudio, and the hand-crafted Koetsu range from the Rosewood Standard through the Urushi and Platinum series. Vinyl Sound's audio specialists in Richmond Hill, Ontario provide expert cartridge selection, phono stage matching, stylus force measurement, and tonearm alignment for every turntable setup, with shipping available across Canada.

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