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Grado Gold3 Prestige 3 Series Cartridge The Grado Gold3 Prestige 3 Series Cartridge delivers exceptional tonal balance, dynamic range, and realism for an immersive vinyl listening experience. Hand assembled in Brooklyn, this cartridge features advanced technology for superior sound clarity and stereo imaging. Key Features Hand Assembled in Brooklyn: Crafted by experienced builders ensuring high quality and consistency. Diamond Tipped Stylus: Elliptical diamond stylus mounted on a brass bushing for precise tracking. Twin Magnet System: Optimises balance between stereo channels for accurate imaging. Patented Flux-Bridge™ Design: Low effective moving mass for excellent frequency response. Four Coil Unison: Ultra high purity copper coils wound for precise channel balance and stereo imaging. De-Stressed Chassis: Reduces unwanted resonances and dissipates energy for cleaner sound. Swiss Screw Machined Components: Ensures tight tolerances and durability. Optimised Transmission Line (OTL) Technology: Minimises distortion and rejects unwanted resonances for clear, detailed sound. Product Description The Gold3 cartridge uses a four-piece OTL cantilever with a Grado-specific elliptical diamond stylus mounted on a brass bushing. A machined turned generator reduces distortion and enhances transparency. Each Gold3 cartridge is hand selected from production runs that meet strict test specifications. Grado’s Optimised Transmission Line (OTL) technology ensures ideal signal transfer from the LP surface to the cartridge generator, rejecting unwanted resonances and lowering distortion. This preserves the fundamental and harmonic frequencies of the music while minimising motor system noise. The OTL stylus and cantilever design improves soundstage height, width, and depth, delivering more detail and quieter records. The Gold3 benefits from technology trickled down from Grado’s acclaimed Lineage Series, including advanced coil winding techniques using ultra high purity copper wire. This achieves unison between the four coils in each cartridge, providing precise channel balance and accurate stereo imaging. Powered by a twin magnet system, the Gold3 maintains excellent stereo imaging with internal magnetic circuit parts held to extremely high tolerances. The patented Flux-Bridge™ design offers one of the lowest effective moving mass systems, ensuring balanced performance across the full frequency range. Inspired by the Lineage Series Epoch model, the Gold3 features a de-stressed chassis that dissipates unwanted energy and resonant frequencies, allowing the desired signal to travel freely for a clean and natural sound reproduction. Customer Review "I've always found the sound of cartridges other than moving coils to be unrefined by comparison; in particular, the top end of high output designs never quite matches coils for speed, clarity and grace. The Prestige Gold, however, seemed to be sweeter than most. It was lively and detailed but never edgy on vocal sibilants, and didn't over-emphasise leading edges on acoustic guitar. Gold? Smooth? Mellow Yellow!" Alan Sircom / HI-FI CHOICE Specifications No specific technical specifications were provided in the original content.