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Latest Prestige Red Cartridge Upgrade for Heightened Performance
Grado’s Prestige Red3 phono cartridge uses a four piece OTL cantilever that has a Grado specific-diamond mounted on a brass bushing. The Red3 cartridges are hand selected from Blue2 production runs, which meet higher test specifications. Approximately 10% of the run usually exhibits these specs and become a Red2.
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.
"I recommend that you consider this $ensible cartridge, as it is good value for the price," urges James T. Frane in $ensible Sound magazine, writing on the original Grado Prestige Red and Blue cartridges.
Hand Assembled in Brooklyn, USA
The Red3 is hand assembled in Brooklyn, USA. With the recent development of the highly received Lineage Series of cartridges, Grado was able to have a trickle down of technology and bring a new technique to the Red3.
Latest Series 3 Upgrades
This updated series of cartridges offers excellent tonal balance, dynamics, and realism, for a most rewarding reproduction of vocals and instruments. Grado’s 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 Red3 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 Red3 to have one of the lowest effective moving mass generating systems while creating an excellent balance throughout the full frequency range.
The development of the Epoch in the Lineage Series gave Grado an in-depth experience with using an outer housing as a damping device. This led to the creation of a process which de-stresses the chassis and dissipates unwanted energy and resonant frequencies, allowing the desired signal to travel freely.
