Goldring E3 Moving Magnet Cartridge
The Goldring E3 is the top model in Goldring’s E Series — a serious step-up for listeners who want greater detail, cleaner highs, and better control without losing the easy, musical character that makes vinyl fun. It combines an aluminium cantilever with a superior bonded “super-elliptical” stylus profile designed to pull more information from the groove and reduce sibilance on vocals.
- Top of the E Series range for maximum performance in the lineup
- Aluminium cantilever for improved rigidity and groove-tracing accuracy
- Bonded super-elliptical stylus (0.3 × 0.7 mm) for higher detail and reduced sibilance
- Moving Magnet (MM) design — compatible with standard MM phono stages
- Standard ½″ mounting for easy installation on most tonearms
Product Overview
The E3 builds on the E2 with the same aluminium cantilever, but upgrades the stylus to a finer super-elliptical profile. That smaller front-to-back radius helps the stylus trace high-frequency groove modulations more accurately, improving detail and reducing harshness and sibilance on challenging recordings.
If you’ve already invested in a decent turntable and phono stage, the E3 is often the “sweet spot” upgrade that makes your system feel more resolved, more open, and more refined.
Features
- Magnetic Duplex Technology™: Dual-magnet generator geometry designed to reproduce stereo information accurately
- Expert Adjustment: Factory micro-adjustment helps optimize channel balance without requiring horizontal tracking tweaks
- Stylus/Cantilever upgrade: Super-elliptical stylus profile designed to retrieve more information from the groove
Technical Specifications
- Colour: Black/Violet
- Cantilever: Aluminium
- Stylus profile: Elliptical
- Stylus radius: 0.3 × 0.7 mm
- Frequency range: 20 Hz – 20 kHz
- Channel balance: 1.5 dB at 1 kHz
- Channel separation: > 20 dB at 1 kHz
- Sensitivity (output): 3.5 mV @ 1 kHz / 5 cm/sec
- Static compliance: 20 mm/N
- Vertical tracking angle: 20°
- Load resistance: 47 kΩ
- Load capacitance: 100 – 200 pF
- Internal inductance: 400 mH
- Internal resistance: 410 Ω
- Cartridge mass: 6.9 g
- Fixing centres: 12.7 mm / 0.5 in
- Playing weight: 1.5 – 2.5 g (2.0 g recommended)
Setup & System Matching
- Set tracking force close to 2.0 g as a starting point (within the recommended range)
- Match anti-skate roughly to tracking force
- Align using a standard 2-point protractor for best tracking and channel balance
- Use a phono stage set to MM with a 47 kΩ load
What’s In The Box
- 1 × Goldring E3 cartridge
Want the best performance in the E Series? The E3 is built for listeners chasing more detail and cleaner highs, with a stylus profile designed to reduce sibilance and extract more music from every record.