Grado

Notes: The DJ200i is the premium DJ cartridge from hi-fi specialists grado. Hand engineered for a premium quality, rich, warm and unique sound, the DJ200i is built and designed to meet the demanding needs of the professional DJ. A step above anything else in this price bracket, and many cartridges priced significantly higher.

The grado specially engineered transmission line cantilever allows for the ideal transfer of music signal and for safe and effective stylus back-cueing. The prestige model DJ200i uses a modified 4 piece otl cantilever technology, oxygen free wire in the coils and a specially designed, high polished, diamond mounted in a brass bushing for possibly, the most advanced DJ cartridges ever offered to the professional DJ market.

Notes: All Prestige series styli are compatible; any of these styli will work in any Prestige body. All the Styli; Green, Black, Red, Blue & Silver Styli. The performance difference translates into real sonic improvements; as you move up the Prestige line, the sound becomes smoother, more open and more detailed.

Genuine replacement styli for all Grado Prestige cartridges including black, green, blue, red, silver and gold

A worn stylus can cause serious (irreversible) damage to your records, and provide poor sound quality

Notes: There are many analogue lovers with record collections that include mono albums. Grado strive to have products that will fit all the needs of the analogue enthusiast. So now, Grado offers two new cartridge models in a mono version. The MC+ and the ME+ are mounted with an elliciptical diamond. The ME+ uses one of GRADO's upgraded generating systems. All wooden body cartridges are available in mono version. This will make your records quieter and enhance the musical pleasure of these recordings.

Frequency Response: 10-55,000 Hz
Principal: MI
Input Load: 47K
Output at 1KHz 5CM/sec.: 5mV
Recommended Tracking Force: 1.5
Stylus Type: E
Inductance: 45mH
Resistance: 475
Stylus Replacement: U
Mounting: S/P
Weight: 5.5

Notes: The Prestige Series of 78-RPM cartridges are designed for high output and excellent stability under even severe use. Each cartridge can be used for either archival or casual play without concern for undue wear on the record. All Grado 78 cartridges have a considerable reduction in tip mass resulting in extended frequency response while tracking forces can range from 2-5 grams. The experts acclaim these cartridges as virtually the finest 78-rpm cartridges in the world.

Frequency Response: 10-55,000 Hz
Principal: MI
Input Load: 47K
Output at 1KHz 5CM/sec.: 5mV
Recommended Tracking Force: 2.5
Stylus Type: C
Inductance: 45mH
Resistance: 475
Stylus Replacement: U
Mounting: S/P
Weight: 5.5

Notes: All Prestige series styli are compatible; any of these styli will work in any Prestige body. All the Styli; Green, Black, Red, Blue & Silver Styli. The performance difference translates into real sonic improvements; as you move up the Prestige line, the sound becomes smoother, more open and more detailed.

Genuine replacement styli for all Grado Prestige cartridges including black, green, blue, red, silver and gold

A worn stylus can cause serious (irreversible) damage to your records, and provide poor sound quality

Notes: The Green3 uses a three piece OTL cantilever that has a Grado specific diamond mounted on a brass bushing.

What's the difference between Black3 and Green3?
Approximately 15% of the Black3 production run meet higher specifications. These are hand selected from the batch and designated as Green3.

Grado's OTL, or optimized transmission line, technology provides an ideal transfer of signal from the surface of the LP to the generator of the system. This technology rejects unwanted resonances and lowers distortion preserving the fundamental and harmonic frequencies of the music. This also helps keep noise generated by the motor system in the cartridge to a minimum.

Grado's OTL stylus/cantilever design makes records sound quieter, improves the height, width, and depth of the soundstage, and present more detail than previously obtainable.

The Green3 is hand assembled by Grado's team in Brooklyn, with some builders having over 25 years of experience. This updated series of cartridges offers excellent tonal balance, dynamics, and realism, for a most rewarding reproduction of vocals and instruments. The coil winding techniques using ultra high purity copper wire, which were honed during the development of the Lineage Series, have let the electrical circuits achieve unison between the four coils in each phono cartridge. This allows for a precise balance between channels and accurate stereo imaging.

As in all Grado phono cartridges the Green3 is powered by a twin magnet system that optimizes the balance between stereo channels. All internal magnetic circuit parts are held to extremely high tolerances creating the desired stereo imaging. Grado's patented Flux-Bridger design allows the Green2 to have one of the lowest effective moving mass generating systems while creating an excellent balance throughout the full frequency range.

Notes: Grado Prestige ME+ Mono Phono Cartridge uses a modified four piece OTL cantilever technology, oxygen free wire in the coils and a specially designed, high polished, elliptical diamond mounted in a brass bushing, made for analogue lovers with record collections that include mono albums.

Prestige Series

The Prestige series of cartridges are designed for high output and excellent stability under severe use. A considerable tip mass reduction results in a frequency response to 50 kHz and beyond and tracking forces from 1-2 grams. They are acclaimed by experts as virtually the finest pickups in the world at their price. All styli in the Prestige series are user replaceable.

Mono Cartridge

Grado strives to deliver products that will fit all the needs of the analogue enthusiast. To this end, Grado offers two new cartridge models in a mono version. The ME+, like the MC+, is mounted with an elliptical diamond.

Optimised Transmission Line

Prestige model ME+ uses a modified four piece OTL cantilever technology, oxygen free wire in the coils and a specially designed, high polished, elliptical diamond mounted in a brass bushing. This provides an ideal transfer of the signal from point to point, stylus to cantilever to magnet to coils, etc achieved by eliminating resonance at each of these key junctions. The transmission line cantilever consists of separate sections that are telescoped into each other.

All sections are made of different alloys, some sections hollow, other sections solid. These sections are bonded together with materials that act as dampers and are coated with a black proprietary material which controls and absorbs resonances that travel on the surface of the cantilever. The OTL stylus/cantilever design will make your records sound quieter, improve the height, width, and depth of the soundstage and offer more detail than previously obtainable.

Pivoted-Fixed Axial

This design feature is basically quite simple. The "OTL" cantilever shaft is brought to a fixed axial pivot that supports the entire cantilever assembly. A miniature element attached to the end of the cantilever is allowed to move freely within the lines of flux of a stationary magnet and coil structure.

This system of support is mechanically more accurate (more linear) than conventional "teeter-totter" designs that utilize an iron armature to balance the mass of the cantilever. The teeter-totter design is supported in the centre with a rubber doughnut mounting. The fixed axial design has a very low tip mass, which results in lower distortion, improved transient response, and longer record life.

Flux-Bridger Generator

The Flux-Bridger design uses four separate magnetic gaps that the miniature element of the cantilever bridges. The miniature element moves between opposing flux gaps creating an increase in flux in one gap while reducing it in the other. The four separate magnetic gaps create a highly efficient and perfectly balanced system. This design requires fewer coil turns than conventional designs.

100% Quality Control

The ME+ uses one of Grado's upgraded generating systems. All wooden body cartridges are available in mono version. Each individual cartridge manufactured by Grado is hand assembled and tested for frequency response, channel output, channel balance, phase linearity, inductance and resistance. This meticulous care in design and construction lavished on each Grado cartridge contributes to an unchallenged consistency of performance and guarantee of reliability.

Tech Specs

Freq Response: 10-50
Principal: Moving Iron
Input Load: 47K
Output 5cm/s: 5mV @1KHz
Recommend Track Force: 1.5
Stylus Type: Elliptical
Inductance: 45mH
Resistance: 475
Stylus Replacement: U
Mounting: S/P
-Weight: 5.5g

Notes: Hi-fi specialists Grado specialise in rich warm and unique sounding audio equipment.

The Grado DJ100i is built and designed to meet the demanding needs of the professional DJ. These cartridges deliver performance never known before in the pro DJ market. The Grado specially engineered transmission line cantilever allows for the ideal transfer of music signal and for safe and effective stylus back-cueing. The prestige model DJ100i uses a 3-piece otl cantilever technology, oxygen free wire in the coils and a specially designed, high polished, diamond mounted in a brass bushing. For possibly, the most advanced DJ cartridges ever offered to the professional DJ market. This lifetime package includes 2 replacement stylus to ensure the Grado sound can be enjoyed for as long as possible.

Notes: The Grado Prestige 78E is designed to be used with 78 records, a high output cartridge with excellent stability under even severe use, featuring modified four piece OTL cantilever technology, oxygen free wire in the coils and a specially designed, high polished, conical/spherical 3mm diamond mounted in a brass bushing. This cartridge can be used for either archival or casual play without concern for undue wear on the record.

Grado 78 cartridges have a considerable reduction in tip mass resulting in extended frequency response while tracking forces can range from 2-5 grams. The experts acclaim these cartridges as virtually the finest 78-rpm cartridges in the world.

Tech Specs

Frequency Response: 10-50
Principal: MI
Input Load: 47K
Output at 1KHz 5CM/sec: 5mV
Recommended Tracking Force: 2-5g
Inductance: 45mH
Resistance: 475
Stylus: replaceable
Mounting: standard
Weight: 5.5g

Product features
Colour: black
Type of stylus: elliptical
Type of turntable component: needle