Brimming with Beautiful Detail
If your LPs cry out for detail retrieval, reward that faithful vinyl with Grado's new Statement Master MM cartridge. Its five piece OTL cantilever technology achieves an additional five-percent tip mass reduction over the Platinum and Sonata models. The coils are wound with ultra-high purity long crystal (UHPLC) oxygen free copper wire. Master is mounted with Grado's specially designed nude elliptical diamond.
"Airiness and speed of transients" were two of the qualities that impressed Jeffrey Silverstein about the Master in his review of the Statement product line at www.positive-feedback.com. "I might consider checking out the Master for someone thinking about a moving coil - $800 certainly buys you a lot of beautiful detail and speed and transients - and you don t need a new phono stage."
Statement Master utilizes gold coil wires, a boron cantilever and a diamond cut specially for Grado. All this is hand-assembled within a machined Autralian Jarrah wood housing.
The Statement has a total of 380 turns of wire on each of its four coils, compared to 6,000 turns for the Reference. Fewer turns of wire on the coils shortens the distance the signal must travel from 125 to just over seven feet! The new coil wire also has 16 times more area for carrying the signal, for optimum signal transfer. The Statement Master offers enhanced tracking with improved imaging and more musical information. All of this comes with Grado's usual warm, smooth, full-bodied, non-fatiguing and rich sound qualities.
List: $800.
