Mammoth Gold

The Aidas Mammoth Gold stands at the summit of everything Aidas has learned. This is the cartridge that has earned reverence from listeners around the world—a statement of what becomes possible when uncompromising materials meet decades of refinement.

The body is carved from the ivory of 21,000-year-old Siberian woolly mammoth tusks, sourced from the permafrost and worked with extraordinary care. Aidas tested every promising material in pursuit of the ideal cartridge body—stone, exotic hardwoods, metals, even other bone and horn—and found mammoth ivory superior to all. Its density, its strength, and above all its ability to damp unwanted vibration while allowing the music to breathe remain unmatched by any alternative. At the heart of the generator lie pure 999-fine gold coils, chosen for their natural, liquid character and effortless detail retrieval. The Namiki adamant boron composite cantilever and Micro Ridge stylus extract everything the groove holds, while Aidas’s double-damping system ensures absolute composure. This is analogue at its most refined—the culmination of the Aidas art.