Soundsmith
The Voice
The Voice is a high-output moving-iron cartridge hand-built by Soundsmith, the small Peekskill, New York, workshop run by designer Peter Ledermann, using the company's proprietary fixed-coil/moving-iron topology and single-crystal ruby cantilevers made in-house. It sits below Soundsmith's flagship Sussurro line but is still assembled in small numbers by hand with limited-dealer, largely direct-order distribution, and it won Soundsmith a "Product of the Year" nod noted in enthusiast press coverage (Soundsmith, True Audiophile).
MSRP
$3,000
Used market · Good
$1,250
MSRP to used market
From $3,000 at launch to $1,250 today.
Specifications
- Price
- $2,999.95 MSRP (USA)
- Weight
- 6.8 g
- Compliance
- 28 µm/mN (high-compliance version); 22 µm/mN (medium)
- Stylus type
- Optimized Contour Line Contact (OCL), nude, 0.100 mm SQ
- Output voltage
- 2.12 mV
- Effective tip mass
- 0.30 mg
- Cantilever material
- Single-crystal ruby
- Recommended loading
- ≥ 47 kΩ
- Recommended tracking force
- 1.3–1.6 g (standard medium compliance); 1.0–1.2 g (special-order high compliance)
Active listings (0)
Similar but better
Matched by the Audiophilia engine on character, specs and market position.
Step up
Acoustical Systems · cartridges
Palladian
$10,445$10,445
- A step up in the same category
Ikeda Sound Labs · cartridges
9TT
$1,950$4,600
- A step up in the same category
Soundsmith · cartridges
Sussurro mk II
$2,925$5,000
- A step up in the same category
My Sonic Lab · cartridges
Signature Gold
$4,250$8,995
- A step up in the same category
