Grado Phono Cartridges

The newly redesigned Grado Platinum 1 cartridge offers four improvements over its predecessor. The coil design has been reconfigured. The size of the coils were reduced, cutting back on the number of turns, for improved sound quality. Grado Labs has developed a new process of potting the coils which helps control internal resonance in the coils which then lowers the noise floor even more than before. Also, the effective moving mass of their generating system has been reduced by 17%, thus allowing for a quicker and more accurate reproduction of music. All this is hand-assembled within a machined, new processed, Australian Jarrah wood housing. The wood enclosure has been changed from Mahogany to Australian Jarrah, which is a much harder and denser, thus adding greater stability to the cartridge as a generating device.

Grado Reference Platinum 1 Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving Iron
- Output voltage: 5mV
- Frequency response: 10Hz-60kHz
- Load impedance: 47k ohms
- Channel separation: 40dB
- Stylus type: Special elliptical
- Stylus replacement: Factory replaceable
- Mounting: 1/2 inch
- Compliance: 20mm/N
- Tracking force: .075-2.0 g
- Recommended tracking force: 1.5 g
- Weight: 6.5 g

GRADO SILVER 1 SILVER1 P-MOUNT T4P PHONO CARTRIDGE

Ships to US only

Grado P-mount T4P cartridges are acclaimed worldwide by experts as virtually the finest pickups at their price points. The Grado Prestige series of P-mount T4P cartridges are designed for high output and excellent stability under the most demanding conditions. All of the the range uses Grado's patented Optimized Transmission Line (OTL) technology which makes your records sound quieter, improve the height, width and depth of the sound stage and offer more detail than previously achievable. Grado's OTL technology is all about delivering more music, more performance.

Grado Silver 1 P-mount T4P Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving magnet
- Output voltage: 5mV
- Frequency response: 10Hz-60kHz
- Load impedance: 47k ohms
- Channel separation: 35dB
- Stylus type: Elliptical
- Stylus replacement: User replaceable
- Compliance: 20mm/N
- Tracking force: 1.0-2.0 g
- Recommended tracking force: 1.5 g
- Weight: 5.5 g

For stylus replacements, refer to Related Products:
- Standard stylus: Grado Silver Stylus
- Upgrade stylus: Grado Gold Stylus

GRADO SILVER 1 SILVER1 PHONO CARTRIDGE

Ships to US only

Grado cartridges are acclaimed worldwide by experts as virtually the finest pickups at their price points. The Grado Prestige series of cartridges are designed for high output and excellent stability under the most demanding conditions. All of the the range uses Grado's patented Optimized Transmission Line (OTL) technology which makes your records sound quieter, improve the height, width and depth of the sound stage and offer more detail than previously achievable. Grado's OTL technology is all about delivering more music, more performance. Grado Silver uses a four piece OTL cantilever system, ultra-high purity long crystal oxygen free copper wire in the coils and Grado's specially designed elliptical diamond mounted on a brass bushing.

Grado Silver 1 Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving magnet
- Output voltage: 5mV
- Frequency response: 10Hz-60kHz
- Load impedance: 47k ohms
- Channel separation: 35dB
- Stylus type: Elliptical
- Stylus replacement: User replaceable
- Compliance: 20mm/N
- Tracking force: 1.0 - 2.0 g
- Recommended tracking force: 1.5 g
- Weight: 5.5 g

For stylus replacements, refer to Related Products:
- Standard stylus: Grado Silver Stylus
- Upgrade stylus: Grado Gold Stylus

The Grado Statement 1 cartridge is not only best sounding, it is tonally and harmonically the most naturally organic cartridge for the reproduction of musical instruments. Woodwinds, piano and string reproduction are superb. Vocal reproduction, a genuine strength of Grado cartridges, is breathtaking.

Grado Statement 1 Statement1 Cartridge Specifications
- Type: MI
- Output voltage: 0.5mV
- Frequency response: 5Hz-75kHz
- Load impedance: 47k ohms
- Channel separation: 45dB
- Stylus type: Elliptical
- Stylus replacement: Factory replaceable
- Inductance: 2mH
- Resistance: 2
- Mounting: 1/2 inch
- Compliance: 20mm/N
- Recommended tracking force: 1.5 g
- Weight: 7 g

The Statement Master is revelatory. It reveals in exquisite and picturesque detail the musical nuance, energy, and excitement of the original recording. The most rewarding bounty is being able to hear your records as pure and analog as they truly are.

Grado Statement Master 1 Cartridge Specifications
- Type: MI
- Output voltage: 0.5mV
- Frequency response: 110Hz-60kHz
- Load impedance: 47k ohms
- Channel separation: 40dB
- Stylus type: Elliptical
- Stylus replacement: Factory replaceable
- Inductance: 2mH
- Resistance: 2
- Mounting: 1/2 inch
- Compliance: 20mm/N
- Recommended tracking force: 1.5 g
- Weight: 6.5 g

The newly redesigned Statement Platinum1 has had its coil design reconfigured, and the effective moving mass of its generating system has been reduced by 17%. All this is hand-assembled within a machined, new processed, Australian Jarrah wood housing. The Statement Platinum1 model uses a modified four piece OTL cantilever technology achieving a 10% tip mass reduction over the Prestige series and ultra-high purity long crystal (UHPLC) oxygen free copper wire in the coils. The Statement Platinum 1 model uses Grado's specially designed elliptical diamond mounted on a brass bushing.

Grado Statement Platinum1 Cartridge Specifications
- Type: MI
- Output voltage: 0.5mV
- Frequency response: 10Hz-60kHz
- Load impedance: 47k ohms
- Channel separation: 40dB
- Stylus type: Grado specially designed elliptical diamond
- Stylus replacement: Factory replaceable
- Inductance: 2mH
- Resistance: 2
- Mounting: 1/2 inch
- Compliance: 20mm/N
- Recommended tracking force: 1.5 g
- Weight: 6.5g

The Grado Statement Reference1 retrieves all manner of musical detail lost in the long winding coils of many other cartridges. Records well known and played often in the past sound fresh and deliciously new. With its tonally complete and harmonically natural sound quality, the Grado Statement Reference1 offers astonishing wonderment and long-lasting joy.

Grado Statement Reference 1 Cartridge Specifications
- Type: MI
- Output voltage: 0.5mV
- Frequency response: 10Hz-60kHz
- Load impedance: 47k ohms
- Channel separation: 4-dB
- Stylus type: Elliptical
- Stylus replacement: Factory replaceable
- Inductance: 2mH
- Resistance: 2
- Mounting: 1/2 inch
- Compliance: 20mm/N
- Recommended tracking force: 1.5 g
- Weight: 6.5 g

The newly redesigned Statement Sonata1 has had its coil design reconfigured, and the effective moving mass of its generating system has been reduced by 17%. All this is hand-assembled within a machined, new processed, Australian Jarrah wood housing. The Statement Sonata1 model uses a modified four piece OTL cantilever technology achieving a 10% tip mass reduction over the Prestige series and ultra-high purity long crystal (UHPLC) oxygen free copper wire in the coils. The Statement Sonata 1 model uses Grado's specially designed nude elliptical diamond mounted on a brass bushing.

Grado Statement Sonata1 Cartridge Specifications
- Type: MI
- Output voltage: 0.5mV
- Frequency response: 10Hz-60kHz
- Load impedance: 47k ohms
- Channel separation: 40dB
- Stylus type: Grado specially designed elliptical diamond
- Stylus replacement: Factory replaceable
- Inductance: 2mH
- Resistance: 2
- Mounting: 1/2 inch
- Compliance: 20mm/N
- Recommended tracking force: 1.5 g
- Weight: 6.5g

Reviews

"...the Sonata does a great job in reproducing the bass?Yes, the midrange was excellent. The upper octaves of the Grado Sonata did extend to the limits of my test records and sound very smooth. Very nice indeed!"
Anthony H. Cordesman - Audiophile Voice

"And though the Sonata showed consistent excellence with stereo staging and imaging, one always sensed a truth to the recording, without exaggerated effect."
Wayne Garcia - The Absolute Sound