Pure Fidelity Components
The Stratos
As featured and critically acclaimed in:
"A high-end bargain. Yes, it's that good. And underpriced."
"The finest cartridge I've ever heard. I now own one."
"This cartridge sounded better than ones costing ten times its price."
"The Stratos finds something beautiful in everything."
"There's meat on those bones."
"Do phono cartridges make a huge difference to vinyl record sound quality?" With the Stratos MC in frame.
The Stratos MC earns its own listing in Stereophile's Recommended Components, Phono Cartridges.
The Stratos
The Story
A cartridge John would be proud to call his own.
The Stratos took years of prototypes. Cartridges with the all-round performance John wanted already existed, but they cost as much as a small car. He set out to make one that does justice to every kind of music, at a price a serious listener can justify.
The Stratos relies on no exotic materials. In John’s words, it is the cartridge he had been waiting for himself.
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What it sounds like
Voiced for the music.
The Stratos is voiced for neutrality and detail, with an organic midrange and the dynamic range to follow explosive transients. Reviewers have reached for words like “holographic” and “beautiful” to describe it.
Specifications & materials.
Pair it with
A Pure Fidelity turntable.
The Stratos is voiced for our hybrid turntables, and suits any of them.
Hear the Stratos in your system.
Contact us, and we will help you place a Stratos in your system: loading, gain, and the right phono stage for your preamplifier.
