Turntable Cartridges

The Elite is an ultra high-performance low-output moving coil cartridge which incorporates all of Goldring's most time-honoured design features. These include advanced magnetic circuitry with neodymium magnet and an ultra-rigid Pocan body. The Elite incorporates a Gyger S line-contact nude diamond stylus, providing maximum groove information retrieval and an outstandingly smooth and extended frequency response. The Swedish iron armature is hand-wound with pure silver wire which provides much higher definition than is found in standard record cartridge construction.The Elite represents the very best in traditional British audio technology and design.
Channel separation at 1 kHz: 25 dB
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The Quintet Black S is graced with a Nude Shibata diamond considered one of the best stylus profiles available mounted on a high-performance Boron cantilever. The MC Quintet Series is congruent with Ortofons unrelenting commitment to providing the most precise and accurate reproduction possible without coloration. 

Ethos is a truly high-end cartridge featuring a vital-shank, nude-diamond stylus. This polyhedral, line-contact profile was chosen because it has a very low tip-mass and a large contact area whilst being very narrow from front to back; even enabling the undistorted retrieval of ultrasonic frequencies in a recording. In order to properly process this information, at the heart of the Ethos cartridge is Goldring's hand-built GOL-1 moving-coil generator. Featuring a hand-wound cross-shaped, soft-iron armature and married to a low resonance aircraft aluminium chassis, each one is precision tuned by our expert craftsmen to achieve our best ever level of performance. The result is that one becomes …

The Ortofon Cadenza Red features a nude fine line stylus with a cylindrical aluminium cantilever. The stylus tip radius is r/R 8/40 µm. The coils are made from 6NX (99.9999 %) pure silver wire. An improved winding process on the armature allows a better channel balance.

Featuring a special line contact stylus on a 0.28 mm diameter solid boron cantilever the AT-ART9XI replaces the AT-ART9 as Audio-Technicas flagship magnetic core MC cartridge. The "ART" in the model number stands for Audio-Technica Reference Transducer a designation that they give only to their flagship phono cartridges. The specially designed magnetic circuit boasts an output voltage of 0.5 mV (1 kHz 5 cm/sec) making the cartridge easy to use and capable of reproducing even the most delicate expressions while also ensuring dynamic playback. The dual moving coils (fashioned from high-performance PCOCC wire) are aligned in an inverted V shape to provide high separation and wide response for clear …

An update of the AT-ART7 the AT-ART9XA non-magnetic core MC cartridge features a Shibata stylus on a 0.28 mm diameter solid boron cantilever. The "ART" in the model number stands for Audio-Technica Reference Transducer a designation Audio Technica give only to their flagship phono cartridges. Compared with the magnetic core used in most MC cartridges non-magnetic core cartridges are free from magnetic distortion allowing for natural timbre and a precise sound field. Although conventional non-magnetic cores struggle with output voltage the AT-ART9XA features a newly designed coil armature with an improved output voltage of 0.2 mV (1 kHz 5 cm/sec). The dual moving coils (fashioned from high-performance …

The soundstage of the Cadenza Blue from Ortofon  is wide open and grandiose as soon as you take it out of the box. The Cadenza Blue employs a Nude FG 70 stylus with a very thin ruby cantilever and the improved winding process of the armature ensures better channel balance than any model that came before it.