Goldring E3 phono cartridge
GODRING E3 PHONO CARTRIDGE
- Stereophile Recommended Component Class B: same as Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 ($999); Ortofon Cadenza Black: ($2879); Sumiko Songbird: ($899).
The E Series are designed to accurately reproduce the original recording, maintaining the creative nuances, musicality and rhythm the artist crafted his audience to hear. These cartridges are intended for use with medium to high mass tonearms found on many current production turntables. The high standard of reproduction benefits from dual magnet technology and expert micro-adjustments of horizontal tracking during production. The latter pre-sets azimuth very accurately resulting in crosstalk that is optimized and the cartridge can be safely installed in a typical turntable with no correction needed.
The Goldring E Series cartridges feature a dual magnet arrangement (see illustration above), “Magnetic Duplex Technology uses two low mass magnets which interact only with their partnering pickup coil, angled at 45° to match the cutting head arrangement. This enables the cartridges to more accurately trace the record groove because they precisely emulate the geometry of the cutting head, making for better stereo separation and a more accurate, involving and musical soundstage.
The E3 cartridge, the highest in the range, utilizes the same aluminum alloy cantilever of the E2, performance elevated by a superior bonded, super-elliptical (0.3 x 0.7 mil) stylus. This gives it superior high frequency groove detail retrieval ability over ordinary elliptical (0.4 x 0.7 mil) or spherical (0.6 mil) styli.
Goldring E3 Cartridge Specifications
- Product Code: GL0058
- Color: violet
- Cantilever: Aluminum
- Stylus profile: Elliptical
- Stylus tip radius: 0.3 × 0.7 mil
- Replacement stylus: GL0059
- Frequency range: 20 Hz -20 kHz
- Channel balance: 1.5 dB at 1 kHz
- Output voltage: 3.5 mV (1 kHz @ 5 cm/sec)
- Static compliance: 20 µm/mN
- Dynamic compliance, dynamic, lateral: 18 µm/mN
- Tracking angle: 20°
- Load resistance: 47 kΩ
- Load capacitance: 100-200 pF
- Internal inductance: 400 mH
- Internal resistance: 410 Ω
- Cartridge weight: 6.9 g
- Mounting: 12.7 mm (0.5 in)
- Tracking force range: 1.5 g - 2.5 g (2.0 g recommended)
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Footnote 1: See full review at Goldring E3 Cartridge: Toting A Super-Elliptical Stylus.