Goldring Ethos Pick-Up

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.

“I’m deeply impressed by the Goldring Ethos.”
Hi-Fi +

“It sounds like the here and now, clear and balanced and full of beauty. If you haven’t considered a Goldring cartridge in a long time, you need to hear the Ethos.”
Part-Time Audiophile

Stylus profile
Vital line-contact
Cantilever
Aluminium alloy
Replacement stylus
Factory replaceable
Frequency range
10 Hz - 32 kHz
Frequency response
± 2 dB (35 Hz - 20 kHz)
Channel balance
<1 dB at 1 kHz
Channel separation
>30 dB at 1 kHz
Sensitivity
0.5 mV ± 1 dB @ 1 kHz, 5 cm/s (rms)
Static compliance
25 mm/N
Dynamic compliance
15 mm/N
Vertical tracking angle
20°
Load resistance
100 Ω
Load capacitance
100 - 1000 pF
Internal inductance
7.5 µH
Internal resistance
4 Ω
Cartridge mass
7.7 g
Total mass (incl. fixings)
8.5 g
Fixing centres
12.7 mm (0.5 in)
Playing weight
1.5 - 2.0 g (1.75 g)

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 optimised to reduce inertia in the suspension system and improve trackability.

Optimised Suspension
The new damper pad uses a bespoke butyl rubber compound to keep the system critically damped. The cartridge remains ultra-stable even during the loudest and most complex passages.

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'.