Vertere Sabre MM

If you thought moving-coil cartridges were the only way to go at this price, this Vertere begs to differ

View offers Cartridge | £845 | whf.cm/SabreMM Audio fanatics like to take sides. You have digital vs analogue, valves vs transistors, moving-magnet vs moving-coil cartridges. You see, Vertere Acoustics’ new Sabre sits very much in the premium end of the moving-magnet market, at a price point where MC cartridges traditionally dominate. While conventional wisdom suggests that moving-coil designs are the way to go at higher price levels, the Sabre is talented enough to cast a pretty large shadow of doubt over this view. Easy to fit This is a carefully considered design, as we have come to expect from Vertere. That bold orange body is machined out of a solid block of aluminium for rigidity, and it clamps onto the generator structure with four bolts, rather than being glued, on performance and alignment grounds.…

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What Hi-Fi? (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2022

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