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Goldring re-enters the turntable market with GR3: A premium blend of audiophile class and user-friendly convenience


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, a globally recognised name in the world of analogue audio and renowned for its precision-engineered phono cartridges, announces the GR3, its first turntable in more than 20 years. This new turntable marks a significant return for Goldring, bringing together the company’s century-old legacy with modern-day convenience.

GR3 represents Goldring’s stylish re-entry into the turntable arena. Developed in collaboration with a renowned British hi-fi manufacturer, GR3 is equipped with the multiple award-winning Goldring E3 moving magnet cartridge, offering true plug-and-play functionality. Its built-in phono pre-amplifier allows seamless compatibility with any amplifier or powered speaker, making it an ideal companion for products from sister company, Q Acoustics, such as its award-winning M20 and M40 powered stereo speakers. Additionally, GR3 comes with a choice of high-quality interconnects from Goldring’s other world-renowned sister brand QED, ensuring a vigorous connection and sound quality.

Key features at a glance:

  • Pre-fitted with a Goldring E3 moving magnet cartridge: This serial award-winning cartridge comes pre-installed and perfectly aligned on the GR3 tonearm, offering a balanced, refined and dynamic sonic performance.
  • Built-in phono stage: For maximum convenience, GR3’s integrated pre-amplifier enables effortless connections to any amplifier or powered speaker of choice.
  • Phenolic resin platter: Designed to maximize the flywheel effect, the platter ensures consistent rotational speed for enhanced audio fidelity.
  • Choice of QED interconnects: Goldring provides both a 1.5 m phono-to-phono and a 3 m phono-to-3.5 mm cable from QED, one of the most respected names in audio interconnects and cables, ensuring optimal connection and sound quality.
  • Elegant design: GR3 pairs premium performance with a high-gloss black plinth and perspex dust cover, offering a sophisticated aesthetic that matches its superior sound.

Pre-fitted Goldring E3 moving magnet cartridge

Goldring’s E3 cartridge is considered one of the best performers at its price point – just see the six consecutive What Hi-Fi? best buy awards for proof. Combining plug-and-play simplicity with uncompromised audio performance, the E3 arrives pre-fitted and pre-adjusted to the GR3 tonearm.

It features a stiff and lightweight aluminium cantilever offering accurate tracking, more detail and reduced distortion, while a ‘dual magnet’ generator ensures authentic reproduction, better channel separation and a more musical soundstage. Designed and engineered in the UK, micro-adjustments during production ensures a consistent and reassuring performance for the life of the product.

Built-in phono stage

Not every amplifier or powered speaker has the necessary gain and EQ to deal with the signal from a turntable. So, to make life easier, GR3 boasts an integrated phono pre-amplifier in order to do this job. It means this single turntable that can happily connect to any amplifier or powered speaker you decide to use without the need for extra phono amplification or boxes. Combine it easily with Q Acoustics M20 or M40 powered speakers for a user-friendly and musically powerful vinyl system.

Phenolic resin platter

The remarkable speed stability of the GR3 is maintained by employing a phenolic resin platter with an enhanced fly-wheel effect. By distributing the majority of its considerable mass at the outside of rotation, inertia is increased and therefore speed variations are suppressed. This gives the GR3 a very good wow and flutter performance which in turn ensures that the fidelity of its musical reproduction remains high.

Choice of QED interconnects

Goldring’s sister company, QED, is one of the most credible and highly regarded manufacturers of analogue and digital interconnects in the world – so choosing either a 1.5 m phono-to-phono or 3 m phono-to-3.5 mm cable to plug GR3 into a compatible amplifier or powered speakers, ensures a stable and robust connection.

Elegant design

To complement the GR3’s class-leading performance, a combination of a stylish high-gloss black plinth, covered by a perspex dust cover delivers a premium and sophisticated design that can match perfectly with any system or fit seamlessly into any interior design space.

The Goldring GR3 turntable is available now in UK and Europe, priced £699 / €899 and in the US from December, priced $999.

To buy the Goldring GR3 turntable and discover other Goldring products please visit www.goldring.co.uk (UK) www.goldringusa.com(US)

Goldring GR3 technical specifications

Tonearm: Hand assembled and carefully matched tonearm

Cartridge: Factory-fitted Goldring E3 moving magnet cartridge

Motor: 24 Volt low noise, low vibration motor

Plinth: Gloss Black finish with Goldring gold branding

Platter: Phenolic resin with flywheel mass on the rim

Phono amp RIAA accuracy: (100 Hz to 20 kHz) ±0.4 dB, typically better than ±0.25 dB

Dimensions (lid closed) (W x H x D): 450 x 120 x 360 mm

Weight (unpacked): 5.5 kg

Goldring E3 moving magnet cartridge technical specifications

Colour: Violet

Cantilever: Aluminium

Stylus profile: Elliptical

Stylus radius: 0.3 x 0.7 mil

Frequency range: 20 Hz – 20 kHz

Channel balance: 1.5 dB at 1 kHz

Channel separation: >20 dB at 1 kHz

Sensitivity: 3.5 mV (1 kHz @ 5 cm/sec)

Static compliance: 20 mm/N

Vertical tracking angle: 20°

Load resistance: 47 kΩ

Load capacitance: 100 – 200 pF

Internal inductance: 400 mH

Internal resistance: 410 Ω

Cartridge mass: 6.9 g

Fixing centres: 12.7 mm (0.5 in)

Playing weight: 1.5 g – 2.5 g (2.0 g recommended)

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Goldring’s new Eroica HX makes upgrading to a moving coil cartridge hassle-free

World renowned analogue audio specialists Goldring, introduces the latest member of its moving coil (MC) cartridge family, the Eroica HX. Joining the award-winning LX model in the Eroica range (‘Eroica’ translates as ‘Heroic’ in Italian), this high output, high-performance cartridge makes upgrading from a moving magnet cartridge to a moving-coil model straightforward.

The demanding nature of moving coil designs often prevents a clear upgrade path for vinyl enthusiasts. With the Eroica HX, turntable owners can enjoy the greatest gains in performance of an MC cartridge without the hassle of a system-wide upheaval – this cartridge delivers a stunning moving coil performance from a moving magnet input.

Arriving at a price comparable to that of a good moving magnet cartridge, Eroica HX is designed to work straight from the box, and to slot into your existing system with no fuss whatsoever. Simply install it in place of your old moving magnet cartridge, and enjoy improved dynamics, enhanced stereo imaging and controlled, distortion-free high frequencies immediately, with no additional equipment or any system adjustments required.

Key features at a glance:

  • New, pure-iron cross-armature design for low crosstalk and reduced effective mass
  • Ultra-fine, enamelled-copper windings for higher output and correct impedance matching
  • Equipped with Gyger II diamond stylus that traces frequencies as high as 50kHz without distortion
  • Housing made from lightweight Pocan® composite material, chosen for its anti-colouration properties

Eroica HX manages to combine thrillingly accomplished performance with unheard-of ease of use thanks to Goldring’s engineering know-how. By using numerous ultra-fine enamelled-copper windings – so fine they literally float – Eroica HX has output sufficient to work with moving magnet phono inputs without compromising the low crosstalk that moving coil designs are prized for. 

And by deploying a new pure-iron cross-armature, the copper windings have a permeable path for the parallel magnetic field in which to operate, resulting in greater output and correct impedance matching. In addition, the cross-shape design can separate left and right stereo channels far more effectively than the moving magnet alternative. Eroica HX’s Gyger II diamond stylus has a tiny five micron playing radius, which means it can trace frequencies as high as 50kHz without distortion, and thanks to the cross-armature’s low mass it can react to musical transients with absolute precision.

This is, unsurprisingly, a delicate mechanism. So Goldring has ensured it’s fully protected by enclosing it in a light, rigid and attractive housing formed from Pocan®. As well as the benefits of its light weight and stiffness, Pocan® has no input into the sound the cartridge makes. 

Eroica HX is compatible with virtually all tonearms, no matter if they’re straight, S-shaped or J-shaped, and no matter if they’re made from aluminium or carbon-fibre. Its standard size fitment means it can be mounted using standard fixings, from above or below the headshell. And it’s among the most obvious and cost-effective upgrades you can make to your vinyl audio system.

The Goldring Eroica HX moving coil cartridge is available in June priced £549 / €699 / $899.

To buy the Goldring Eroica HX moving coil cartridge and discover other Goldring products please visit www.goldring.co.uk / www.goldringusa.com

Specifications

Frequency Response: 20 Hz – 20 kHz ± 3 dB

Frequency Range: 10 Hz – 50 kHz

Channel Balance: within 1 dB @ 1 kHz

Channel Separation: Better than 25 dB @ 1 kHz

Sensitivity: 2.5 mV ± 1 dB, 1 kHz @ 5 cm/sec

Static Compliance: 25 mm/N

Trackability: 85 um (@ 315 Hz)

Equivalent tip mass: 0.4 mg

Vertical Tracking Angle: 22 °

Stylus Radius: Gyger II

Stylus Type: Non-Replaceable (re-tip service available see website)

Load Resistance: 47 kΩ

Load Capacitance: 100 – 500 pF

Internal Inductance: 0.13 mH

Internal Resistance: 35 Ω

Cartridge Mass: 5.2 g

Cartridge Mass (inc. fixings): 6.6 g

Fixing Centre: 0.5 ” (12.7 mm)

Playing Weight: 1.5 – 2.0 g (1.75 g nom.)

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