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Grado

Grado Master3, cartridge

Timbre series, luxury, exceptional assembly quality (hand-assembled) cartridge from Grado.
1 299,00 €

Grado Master3, cartridge - Ask you before buying whether we have this item in a warehouse if we do not have to be ordered and arrive within 2-21 days.

  • Free delivery in Lithuania from 100 €: courier or parcel locker
  • Pick up at our showroom in Kaunas, Armatūrininkų g. 1
  • Pay in instalments available
  • 14-day returns
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▪️ Have questions about this product❓We can advise you by phone +370 683 90000 or visit our showroom at Armatūrininkų g. 1, Kaunas.

Delivery

In Lithuania, we deliver parcels to your door by DPD courier for 5.99€ within 1-2 business days (if the item is in stock). Orders over 100€ qualify for free delivery.

Delivery outside Lithuania takes 3-7 business days. Delivery prices start from 15.00€.

Pick up in store

You can pick up items ordered online at our store at Armatūrininkų g. 1, Kaunas. Please bring your order number.

We recommend calling before you arrive: +370 683 90000

Opening hours: Mon-Fri 9:00-18:00

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INFORMATION

This is a true work of art worthy of a true enthusiast!

  • Only the most luxurious materials are used in the cartridge.
  • Australian Jarrah wood body.
  • Frequency band: 10-60 kHz.
  • Cantilever: Machined boron/Diamond tip.

DESCRIPTION

Cured Jarrah For The Cure

Nearing the top of the Timbre Series, the Master3 achieves optimal sonic quality due to an intricate curing process and specialized materials reserved for our best cartridges.

From Here on Out.

On Reserve.

Some practices we reserve for cartridges near the top of the line, and it starts here. To achieve our desired sound, we experimented with multiple longer curing processes that differ from the Opus3, Platinum3, and Sonata3 while using more modified materials. Each Master3 is individually calibrated after being built.

Small Necessities.

The Materials

To make the Timbre Series work as a whole, we created a way for Jarrah, diamonds, and a twin magnet system to integrate with our Flux-Bridge™. Unlike the cartridges before it, we modified our five piece OTL cantilever technology to achieve a 5% tip mass reduction over the Prestige Series and use ultra-high purity long crystal (UHPLC) oxygen free copper wire in the coils. The Master3 uses a specially Grado designed nude elliptical diamond.

In the Details.

Extreme Precision

Grado has combined newly developed coil winding techniques with decades-old disciplines. A new two-step shielding process brings not only exact unison between the four coils but an unobstructed path for a cleaner signal. The music is allowed to travel undistorted through the coils, greatly reducing mechanical noise while improving tracking. There is an extreme clarity over the full frequency range, with absolutely no stridency or shrillness. Precisely hand tipped with a diamond, a great amount of care goes into each cartridge we build.

The Sound of Wood.

Built from Jarrah

After the Platinum3 cartridge is crafted, it is then placed inside an Australian Jarrah housing. Jarrah is necessary for the majority of Timbre Series with its ability to produce surgically precise clarity without losing any depth. Through a variation of thermal aging processes, the housing gains the ability to better dampen and control the resonant frequencies.

With Love.

Hand-Built in Brooklyn

Each Master3 is hand-built by our team in Brooklyn, as it has been for decades. They are fine tuned for everything from entry-level turntables up to the highest-end stereo systems, the solid mass of the wood helps keep the Master3 steady and producing the Grado signature sound. We started building cartridges on a kitchen table in 1953, and every experience since then has led to the creation of the Master3.

The arrival of a cured mahogany cartridge identical to the one I already owned found me unprepared for the next vaulting leap in my listening education. Within a week of auditioning the 0.5 mv Statement Reference, I began to believe that both my new and vintage vinyl had received a rite of purification, cleansed and made better than new. It was also as though the tiny hairs in my inner ear had been degunked, and in a stroke my hearing was perfectly clear.

Lang Phipps, Audio Reviewer

TECHNICAL DATA

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Body: Australian Jarrah Wood
  • Cantilever: Machined Boron / Diamond Tip
  • Output:
  • High 4.0mV @5 CMV (45)
  • Low 1.0mV @5 CMV (45)
  • Inductance:
  • High Output 55mH
  • Low Output 6mH
  • Resistance:
  • High Output 660 ohms
  • Low Output 70 ohms
  • Input Load: 10k-47k ohms
  • Cartridge Weight: 10 grams
  • Tracking Force: 1.6-1.9 grams
  • Compliance 20μm/mN
  • Channel Separation: Average 30db - 10-30k Hz
  • Controlled Frequency Response: 10-60 KHz
  • Non-Sensitive to Capacitive Load
  • Builds: High Output, Low Output, Mono

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