This is one of the best Moving Magnet phono cartridges that money can buy. You are getting a Nude Shibata stylus which would normally be featured on much more expensive cartridges and a Boron Cantilever with Nano Tube suspension. These exotic materials translate into the type of sound quality normally associated with a cartridge of this relative price.

The 2M Black is a very good cartridge on its own and the LBV250 is without question a cut above and well worth the additional cost.

2M Black LBV250 Specifications

• Output voltage at 1000 Hz, 5cm/sec.  -  5 mV

• Channel balance at 1 kHz  -  < 1 dB

• Channel separation at 1 kHz  -  > 27 dBChannel separation at 15 kHz  -  15 dB

• Frequency response  -  20-20.000 + 2 / - 1 dB

• Tracking ability at 315Hz at recommended tracking force  -  80 µm

• Compliance, dynamic, lateral  -  22 µm/mN

• Stylus type  -  Nude Shibata

• Stylus tip radius  -  r/R 6/50 µm

• Cantilever material - Boron

• Tracking force range  -  1.5-1.7 g (15-17 mN)

• Tracking force, recommended  - 1.6 g (16 mN)

• Tracking angle  -  20°

• Internal impedance, DC resistance  -  1.2 kOhmI

• nternal inductance  -  630 mH

• Recommended load resistance  -  47 kOhm

• Recommended load capacitance  -  150-300 pF

• Cartridge colour, body/stylus  -  Black/Black

• 2M cartridge weight  -  7.2 g