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Denon DL304 cartridge
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My favourite cartridge: it has very good opinion on the net. It sounds good and its thecnical parameters are also good.
Type: Moving Coil
Output voltage: 0.18mV
Frequency response: 20Hz-75kHz
Recommended load impedance: > 100Ω
Channel balance @ 1kHz: < 1.5dB
Channel separation @ 1kHz: > 28dB
Stylus tip: 0.07 x 0.1mm special elliptical
Compliance: 14*10-6 cm/dyne
Recommended tracking force: 1.2g +/- 0.2g
Color: Gold
Weight: 7g
Denon DL-304 Phono Cartridge Specifications
The head and its preamplifier in the shell
Frequency Reponse Chart attached to my device

I bouhgt it in used condition, and replaced the tip because it was worn enough. Now it has a van den Hul tip with boron canteliver. It has really good quality.
I have no picture of the original diamond: it is the van den Hul tip with boron canteliver. The boron is hard enough to be thinner: the effective mass can be lower this way and it has better trackability.

The diamond grinding in higher magnification.
Another view of the diamond.
Unfortunately it has a very small hole (of the canteliver), so the coils look hardly. (e.g. the MC20 has better view).
It has smaller coil and the wire seems to be slightly thinner (<0.02mm!). I could not count the number of turns, but probably more than MC20 has.