Hi-Fi Choice "Product of the Year 2003-04"

Wondering which phono cartridge delivers best value for the money, while offering superior performance? Wonder no more!

England's audiophile journal Hi-Fi Choice bestowed its prestigious "Product of the Year" award for 2003-04 on Grado's Prestige Gold. According to the special Awards 2003 issue of Hi-Fi Choice, "midrange is excellent, with great presence and vitality, it images well, placing instruments and voices with decent precision, and it follows complex lines with apparent ease. Bass is deep and imaging is strong - you can?t ask for more at the price."

Hand-Built All the Way

The hand-built Gold uses a four-piece OTL cantilever technology, ultra-high purity long crystal (UHPLC) oxygen-free copper wire in the coils, and Grado's specially designed elliptical diamond mounting on a brass bushing.

A proprietary "flux-bridger" generator system requires fewer coil turns for lower cartridge mass and electrical inductance. This contributes to a frequency response to 50 kHz and beyond, plus tracking forces from one to two grams.

For standard mount tonearms only.