Description
Goldring Eroica HX Cartridge
The Goldring Eroica HX Cartridge achieves this high output, high-performance by delivering a stunning moving coil performance from a moving magnet input.
It is one of the most obvious and cost-effective upgrades you can make to your vinyl audio system.
Reviews
“The channel separation is genuinely effective.
The Eroica HX uses this separation to create a spacious and convincing soundstage with everything I test on it, helped by its ability to grow and shrink this perception of space to suit the scale of the music…The Goldring does a fine job of delivering on the moving-coil listening experience into a moving-magnet phono stage, and it does so at an extremely competitive price.” – Hi-Fi Choice, 5 Star, Recommended Award
“Sonically, the HX is a highly versatile, very musical and engaging high output MC cartridge. At its price point I would have anticipated a few shortcomings somewhere along the line, in reality it could probably be pitched in at a higher price point.” – The Ear, Best Buy Award
Features
- New, pure-iron cross-armature design for low crosstalk and reduced effective mass
- Ultra-fine, enamelled-copper windings for higher output and correct impedance matching
- Equipped with Gyger II diamond stylus that traces frequencies as high as 50kHz without distortion
- Housing made from lightweight Pocan® composite material, chosen for its anti-colouration properties
Clear upgrade path to moving coil
The demanding nature of moving coil designs often prevents a clear upgrade path for vinyl enthusiasts. With the Eroica HX, turntable owners can enjoy the greatest gains in performance of an MC cartridge without the hassle of a system-wide upheaval – this cartridge delivers a stunning moving coil performance from a moving magnet input
Easy installation
Arriving at a price comparable to that of a good moving magnet cartridge, Eroica HX is designed to work straight from the box, and to slot into your existing system with no fuss whatsoever. Simply install it in place of your old moving magnet cartridge, and enjoy improved dynamics, enhanced stereo imaging and controlled, distortion-free high frequencies immediately, with no additional equipment or any system adjustments required.
Works with moving magnet inputs
Eroica HX manages to combine thrillingly accomplished performance with unheard-of ease of use thanks to Goldring’s engineering know-how. By using numerous ultra-fine enamelled-copper windings – so fine they literally float – Eroica HX has output sufficient to work with moving magnet phono inputs without compromising the low crosstalk that moving coil designs are prized for.
Pure-iron cross-armature design
By deploying a new pure-iron cross-armature, the copper windings have a permeable path for the parallel magnetic field in which to operate, resulting in greater output and correct impedance matching. In addition, the cross-shape design can separate left and right stereo channels far more effectively than the moving magnet alternative.
Gyger II diamond stylus
Eroica HX’s Gyger II diamond stylus has a tiny five micron playing radius, which means it can trace frequencies as high as 50kHz without distortion, and thanks to the cross-armature’s low mass it can react to musical transients with absolute precision.
Light but rigid Pocan® housing
This is, unsurprisingly, a delicate mechanism. So Goldring has ensured it’s fully protected by enclosing it in a light, rigid and attractive housing formed from Pocan®. As well as the benefits of its light weight and stiffness, Pocan® has no input into the sound the cartridge makes.
Compatible with all tonearm designs
Eroica HX is compatible with virtually all tonearms, no matter if they’re straight, S-shaped or J-shaped, and no matter if they’re made from aluminium or carbon-fibre. Its standard size fitment means it can be mounted using standard fixings, from above or below the headshell.
Specifications
- Frequency Response – 20 Hz – 20 kHz ± 3 dB
- Frequency Range – 10 Hz – 50 kHz
- Channel Balance – within 1 dB @ 1 kHz
- hannel Separation – better than 25 dB @ 1 kHz
- Sensitivity – 2.5 mV ± 1 dB, 1 kHz @ 5 cm/sec
- Static Compliance – 25 mm/N
- Trackability – 85 um (@ 315 Hz)
- Equivalent tip mass – 0.4 mg
- Vertical Tracking Angle – 22 °
- Stylus Radius – Gyger II
- Stylus Type – Non-Replaceable (re-tip service available see website)
- Load Resistance – 47 kΩ
- Load Capacitance – 100 – 500 pF
- Internal Inductance – 0.13 mH
- Internal Resistance – 35 Ω
- Cartridge Mass – 5.2 g
- Cartridge Mass (inc. fixings) – 6.6 g
- Fixing Centre – 0.5 ” (12.7 mm)
- Playing Weight – 1.5 – 2.0 g (1.75 g nom.)
