Goldring has launched the GR3, its first turntable in more than 20 years. This new turntable marks a significant return for Goldring, bringing together the company’s century-old legacy with modern-day convenience.
Developed in collaboration with a renowned British hi-fi manufacturer, GR3 is equipped with the multiple award-winning Goldring E3 moving magnet cartridge, offering plug-and-play functionality.
Its built-in phono pre-amplifier allows seamless compatibility with any amplifier or powered speaker, making it an ideal companion for products from sister company, Q Acoustics, such as its M20 and M40 powered stereo speakers. Additionally, GR3 comes with a choice of high-quality interconnects from Goldring’s other sister brand QED, ensuring a vigorous connection and sound quality.
The GR3 is pre-fitted with a Goldring E3 moving magnet cartridge, offering a balanced, refined and dynamic sonic performance, while its integrated preamplifier enables connections to any amplifier or powered speaker of choice. A Phenolic resin platter ensures consistent rotational speed for enhanced audio fidelity, and Goldring provides a choice of either a 1.5 m phono-to-phono or a 3 m phono-to-3.5 mm cable from QED. Also, GR3 pairs premium performance with a high-gloss black plinth and perspex dust cover.
Goldring’s E3 cartridge is considered one of the best performers at its price point, according to What Hi-Fi?. Combining plug-and-play simplicity with audio performance, the E3 arrives pre-fitted and pre-adjusted to the GR3 tonearm.
It features a stiff and lightweight aluminium cantilever offering accurate tracking, more detail and reduced distortion, while a ‘dual magnet’ generator ensures authentic reproduction, better channel separation and a more musical soundstage.
Not every amplifier or powered speaker has the necessary gain and EQ to deal with the signal from a turntable. So, to make life easier, GR3 boasts an integrated phono pre-amplifier in order to do this job. It means this single turntable can connect to any amplifier or powered speaker without the need for extra phono amplification or boxes.
It can also be combined with Q Acoustics M20 or M40 powered speakers for a user-friendly and musically powerful vinyl system.
The speed stability of the GR3 is maintained by employing a phenolic resin platter with an enhanced fly-wheel effect. By distributing the majority of its considerable mass at the outside of rotation, inertia is increased and therefore speed variations are suppressed.
Goldring’s sister company, QED, is a manufacturer of analogue and digital interconnects, and by choosing either a 1.5 m phono-to-phono or 3 m phono-to-3.5 mm cable to plug GR3 into a compatible amplifier or powered speakers, this ensures a stable connection.
The Goldring GR3 turntable is available now in the UK and Europe priced £699 / €899 and in the US from December, priced $999.