Goldring Ethos Series Ethos Moving Coil Cartridge
Ethos 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. Featuring a hand-wound cross-shaped, soft-iron armature and married to a low resonance aircraft aluminium chassis.
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Ethos 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 aluminium chassis, each one is precision tuned by our expert craftsmen to achieve our best ever level of performance. The result is that one becomes simply immersed in the musical experience …and that’s our whole Ethos.
Line-Contact Stylus
The 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 Cantilever
The 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 Armature
The 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 minimises cross-talk, improving the stereo image.
Optimized Suspension
The 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 Magnet
A 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.
Aluminium Body Shell
The body is precision-milled from a low density, rigid, aircraft grade aluminium which helps to maintain a low effective mass and enables it to dissipate unwanted resonances into the tonearm where they are effectively ‘grounded’.
Q What is the Goldring Ethos and how does it differ from the flagship Ethos SE?
It's a high-end moving coil cartridge featuring a vital-shank, nude-diamond stylus and a hand-wound cross-shaped soft-iron armature, individually precision-tuned by craftsmen. It sits just below the Ethos SE in Goldring's range, with slightly different output and compliance specs.
Q What stylus does it use?
A nude diamond stylus with a vital line-contact profile (factory replaceable), mounted on an aluminum alloy cantilever for low tip-mass and a large contact area.
Q What is its output voltage and recommended tracking force?
An output of 0.5 mV ± 1 dB at 1kHz, with a recommended tracking force of 1.5–2.0g (1.75g nominal).
Q How wide is its frequency response, and how well does it separate channels?
A frequency response of ±2dB from 35Hz–20kHz, extending to 10Hz–32kHz overall, with channel separation greater than 30dB at 1kHz.
Q What is its cartridge mass and compliance?
It weighs 7.7g, with a static compliance of 25 mm/N and a dynamic compliance of 15 mm/N — worth checking against your tonearm's effective mass for a well-matched resonance frequency.
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