Goldring E4 cartridge

GODRING E4 PHONO CARTRIDGE
- The flagship and best E Series moving magnet cartridge

Designed as the ultimate upgrade for any modern high-quality turntable — the E4 represents the pinnacle of E Series engineering and performance.

E4 is designed to be compatible with all medium-to-high-mass tonearms of the type found on the majority of high-performance turntables. And because it’s constructed using the same high-quality core as the other E Series cartridges in the range, E4 is ideal both for those who wish to upgrade an obsolete cartridge in its entirety or those who want to boost the performance of their existing E Series cartridge by replacing the stylus.

The E Series are designed to accurately reproduce the original recording, maintaining the creative nuances, musicality and rhythm the artist crafted his audience to hear. These cartridges are intended for use with medium to high mass tonearms found on many current production turntables. The high standard of reproduction benefits from dual magnet technology and expert micro-adjustments of horizontal tracking during production. The latter pre-sets azimuth very accurately resulting in crosstalk that is optimized and the cartridge can be safely and properly installed in a typical turntable with no correction needed.

The Goldring E Series cartridges feature a dual magnet arrangement—“Magnetic Duplex Technology" uses two low mass magnets which interact only with their partnering pickup coil, angled at 45° to match the cutting head arrangement. This enables the cartridges to more accurately trace the record groove because they precisely emulate the geometry of the cutting head, making for better stereo separation and a more accurate, involving and musical soundstage.

The Goldring E4 Features
The E4 features a ‘nude’ super-elliptical stylus of just 7.6 x 18 microns (0.3 x 0.7 mil), cut and polished from a single homogeneous piece of diamond. This makes for a lower effective tip mass of improved rigidity, which in turn means its ability to retrieve high-frequency detail is dramatically improved when compared to the ‘bonded’ elliptical stylus alternative. It’s far less likely to ‘mis-track’ or overshoot when tracing high-frequency groove modulations, and because of its finely polished 7.6-micron profile it can more effectively fit into closely packed inner grooves. Lower distortion, improved transient response and a flat frequency response all contribute to superior fidelity when compared to any price-comparable alternative.

E4 Cartridge Specifications
- Frequency Range: 20 Hz – 20 kHz
- Channel Balance: < 1.5 dB @ 1 kHz
- Channel Separation: > 20 dB @ 1 kHz
- Sensitivity: 3.5 mV (1 kHz @ 5 cm/s)
- Static Compliance: 20 mm/N
- Vertical Tracking Angle: 20°
- Stylus Radius: 7.6 x 18 µm (microns) (0.3 x 0.7 mil)
- Stylus Type: Nude elliptical
- Load Resistance: 47 kΩ
- Load Capacitance: 100 – 200 pF
- Internal Inductance: 400 mH
- Internal Resistance: 410 Ω
- Cartridge Mass: 6.9 g
- Fixing Centre: 12.7 mm (0.5 in) half-inch mount
- Tracking force range: 1.5 – 2.5 g (1.75 g recommended)