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Recommended Component 2024 – Stereophile
"One Luxuriates in a Bath of Musical Bliss"
The younger sibling Of Grado's flagship Epoch3, the Aeon3 unites new shielding techniques with sapphire, diamond, and wood in a major step forward for phono cartridge design.
Grado's Lineage Series brings a higher level of listening to your vinyl, and the Aeon3 was built for just that. Inspired by the Grado Epoch3, the Aeon3 brings to life an exceptional reproduction of vocals and instruments, with superlative tonal balance, dynamics, imaging, and realism. The Aeon3 marries color-correct harmonics with extremely detailed low frequency pitch information. Grado's patented Flux-Bridger generator design creates a superior balance throughout the full frequency spectrum with superb resolution and clarity, which produces an overall truer picture of the music.
"Recommended Component" Honors
Stereophile honored the Grado Aeon4 by awarding it the magazine's coveted Recommend Component status for 2024.
According to Stereophile,"After comparing the Aeon3 with other cartridges, both on the Initial and on the Dr. Feickert Blackbird turntable, HR decided that the Grado appeared to be 'uncovering new, previously buried deposits of recorded microdata. That trait alone is making LPs extra-engaging and more pleasurable,' he concluded."
"WOW!... Last night I played the Berlin Philharmonic's Direct to Disc Brahms 4th Symphony... was amazing," raves Analog Planet's Michael Fremer.
"The soundstage is huge, huge, huge! Instruments appear outside of your speaker's edges with ease and elegance," reports Robert H. Levi in his review for Positive Feedback. "The fun factor of the Aeon is out of this world. With none of the stress and squeeze of moving coil spin to forcefulness, one luxuriates in a bath of musical bliss from this ultra-sophisticated moving iron design."
The Sound of Wood
The Aeon3 is nestled inside a Honduran cocobolo wood housing, adding solid mass and a bold yet revealing signature sound. Cocobolo, known for fine instruments and those chess sets that look too nice to touch, is some of the most beautiful and tonally pleasing woods Grado has ever used. This specially selected species of cocobolo goes through a variation of thermal aging processes and enhances its ability to better dampen and control the resonant frequencies throughout the cartridge. Its denseness and grain are primary reasons why it produces such a unique sound.
Premium Materials
A major step forward in phono cartridge design, the sapphire, diamond, and cocobolo work in harmony to bring this cartridge to life. The specially designed diamond stylus, for the first time in a Grado, is mounted on a sapphire cantilever that connects to the stylus generating system. The Aeon3 features a unique system that has the lowest effective moving mass of any cartridge, providing wonderful tracking on your turntable.
Extreme Precision
All of the internal magnetic circuit parts are Swiss screw machined or molded metal with tolerances on the order of the best Swiss-made watches. Combining newly developed coil winding techniques with decades-old disciplines brings exact unison between the four coils in each phono cartridge. This creates precise balance between channels and accurate stereo imaging. A new four-step shielding process allows the isolation of the wire turns in the coils, and creates an unrivaled clear path for the signal to travel.
Hand-Built in Brooklyn
Each Aeon3 built sees final assembly by John Grado himself on his workbench. Every experience in Grado Labs' history has led to the creation of the Lineage Series. The Aeon3 represents the craftsmanship and unwavering dedication to sound that has been Grado’s main focus since 1953.
Choose the Low Output or the Mono version of the Aeon3.
