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Kinman is the new Gold Standard of pickups




We think that beautifully crafted guitars and our customers deserve the best pickups and definitely should not have crude, ancient design pickups that are abundantly noisy and produce TCS and other shortcomings.  

And BTW, Kinman is the only brand that possesses the following list of esoteric knowledge.

Our boss Chris Kinman has single-handedly done more to improve Strat pickups than all the others put together and has been awarded 7 Patents with more coming along soon.

Here’s his list of marvelous achievements to date:

  1. Zero-Hum technology that totally eliminates hum (even the best of other brand hum-cancellers have residual hum)
  2. And our Zero-Hum technology does not compromise the highs and other delicate pristine tonal nuisances & dynamics
  3. Low strength Alnico-K rod magnets for longer sustain, no Strat-itis warble or string crash in all our Fender-esque models
  4. As well as vast magnetic efficiency improvements and resulting output strength
  5. The only vertical hum-cancelling Fender-esque pickups producing pristine non-aged sound
  6. Perfect string-over-magnet alignment regardless of Narrow or Wide bridge spreads
  7. The same for Strat bridge pickups with our 55mm Magnum Opus Tele Bridge in Strat model
  8. Coil spread compensation technology for narrow magnet spreads that prevents loss of dynamic performance
  9. Anti TCS technology -the main feature of our Magnum Opus models
  10. Four magnet staggers to suit Vintage, Modern and Compound Radius fretboards
  11. Perfect string-to-string level balance
  12. Perfecting coil winding techniques to maximize efficiency, dynamics, clarity and frequency response
  13. Ridding humbuckers, even hot ones, of muddy sound from low wound strings
  14. Laser engraved baseplates with Model ID, serial number, fretboard radius and more
  15. Dozens more improvements in construction and better materials
  16. Non-magnetic mounting plates for P-90 that solve comprises in hum-cancelling
  17. Devising new models which smash the boundaries of conventional pickups

Come out of the dark ages with these technical and sonic Masterpieces.  And all of the above points make Kinman …..

 

~ the new Gold Standard of pickups ~