LP S-klass har en mässingsram med hög massa för förbättrad koppling till tonearmen, en utvecklad "ruby fyrkantig", platt generator och en Ebony kropp. LP S-klass har 50% mer vikt än den tidigare modellen för förbättrade vibrations- och resonansegenskaper, vilket ger större dynamisk kontrast, djupare bas och ökad upplösning.
Den senaste LP S var den första Benz pickupen som använder MicroRidge nålen, som nu finns på alla nya Benz pickuper.
| Nåltyp | Micro-ridge |
| Utsignal* vid 3,54cm/s | 0,35 mV |
| Intern impedans | 38 ohm |
| Rek. belastning | > 400 ohm |
| Vikt | 16 g |
| Fjädringsmjukhet | 15 cu |
| Nåltryck | 1,8-2,0 g |
*OBS för att få utsignalen vid 5cm/s multiplicera med 1,41
Se test av Benz LP S i 6moons
Se test i HiFinews
"I don’t think we yet have developed the language to capture what the Benz itself does, and, believe me, I have been wrestling, mentally, to find a way to see (hear?) if I can convey a sense of what makes it so special.
The Benz captures every sound, and does so with any particular emphasis on “presence” or aliveness (as we have described those characteristics in this essay). The longer you listen to the cartridge—and the more it warms up—the more revealing it becomes in the sense of warmly inviting you in to listen more deeply to the textures, harmonics, and little subtleties that make up the basic foundations of the music itself.
Everything you hear reproduced by the LP S-MR is translucent. Whatever it is that keeps you, the listener, on the outside looking in, vanishes here, to be replaced by a kind of intimate relation with the music—not “intimate” either in any erotic or gushy sense, but rather the kind of intimacy you might strike up with a vintage wine, perfectly aged." Harry Pearson, The absolute sound
