Goldring Ethos Moving Coil Cartridge

Goldring Ethos Moving Coil Cartridge Line-Contact Stylus Aluminium Alloy Cantilever Cross-Shaped Armature Optimized Suspension Neodymium Magnet Aluminum Body Shell “…as a long-term vinyl partner it is extremely adept and should be on any audition shortlist at the price.” — Hi-Fi Choice, 5 Stars, Recommended Award “It sounds like the here and now, clear and balanced and full of beauty. If you haven’t considered a Goldring cartridge in a long time, you need to hear the Ethos.” — Part-Time Audiophile “Goldring’s Ethos is a moving coil cartridge unlike most else. It offers moving coil clarity and stage depth but has a lullingly smooth sound, as we know it from vinyl days of yore. A good performer all-round, with fine tracking, it’s an alternative to the more challenging sound of today’s current crop and worth considering. Outstanding – amongst the best.” — Hi-Fi World, 5 Globes Improve Your Hi-Fi LifeEthos 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 aluminum chassis, each one is precision tuned by Goldring’s expert craftsmen to achieve their best ever level of performance. The result is that one becomes simply immersed in the musical experience …and that’s the whole Ethos. Line-Contact StylusThe line-contact diamond profile provides a large contact area with the groove wall, improving the retrieval of high frequency detail and reducing groove wear. Its vital-shaped shank has a low tip mass giving the design exceptionally good trackability. Alloy CantileverThe stiff and lightweight alloy cantilever tube has been tuned to the ideal length for cartridge stability and ride height. Its length has been optimized to reduce inertia in the suspension system and improve trackability. Cross-Shaped ArmatureThe coils are wound around a cross-shaped armature of pure, high-permeability, Swedish iron. The reduced unsprung mass improves the ability for the stylus to track the groove wall and the coil separation minimizes cross-talk, improving the stereo image. Optimized SuspensionThe new damper pad uses a bespoke butyl rubber compound to keep the system critically damped. Combined with an expertly tensioned tie-wire, the cartridge remains ultra-stable even during the loudest and most complex passages. Neodymium MagnetA very light and powerful neodymium magnet is clamped between two pole shoes creating a perfectly uniform magnetic field gap, within which the cross armature is suspended. This gives Ethos its typically flat and extended frequency response. Aluminum Body ShellThe body is precision-milled from a low density, rigid, aircraft grade aluminum which helps to maintain a low effective mass and enables it to dissipate unwanted resonances into the tonearm where they are effectively ‘grounded’.