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Goldfinger
Statement®
The Clearaudio MC cartridge range has a new flagship: the
Goldfinger Statement, heralding a new era in hi-fi analogue
music reproduction.
Our MC V2 range already sets a world reference standard by using
a unique patented configuration of eight magnets arranged in a
ring. Clearaudio's commitment to ongoing research and
development has pushed this technology even further. The
Goldfinger Statement features no less than twelve magnets
arranged in our patented ring configuration. This generates an
intense magnetic field and also allows a significantly reduced
moving mass, giving a significantly greater sound performance
with new levels of dynamic range, detail and channel separation.
The generator coils are painstakingly wound using pure 24-carat
gold wire, which - thanks to our new twelve magnet design - has
been thinned down, further reducing mass and providing a
generator assembly of incredible efficiency.
The Goldfinger Statement is also the first MC cartridge in the
world to include integrated electro-magnetic field (EMF)
shielding of the generator assembly, enabling a new level of
sound clarity to be achieved.
The 17-gram cartridge body is machined from 585 gold to provide
excellent damping against resonances, in addition to
Clearaudio's distinctive resonance-damping 12-fingered top plate
design (from which the cartridge takes its name).
Like all of our V2 generation MC cartridges, the Goldfinger
Statement incorporates Clearaudio's patented MC construction
principle, which guarantees absolute symmetry of all electrical,
mechanical and magnetic parameters, enabling free movement of
the cartridge by reducing inertia.
As a finishing touch, the Goldfinger Statement features a ˝
carat diamond mounted in the front of the body.
The best recorded, cut and pressed vinyl LP records are able to
provide a dynamic range of 100 dB, which the Goldfinger
Statement can reproduce with stunning accuracy.
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Goldfinger
Specifications
Total mass: 16.5 gram (+/- 0.5 gram)
Stylus shape: Micro HD
Cantilever: Boron
Coil material: 24 kt gold
Compliance: 15/15 µ/mN
Recommended tracking force: 2.8 gram
Channel separation: > 30 dB
Channel difference: < 0.2 dB
Output voltage: 0.9 mV at 5 cm/s
Cartridge impedance: 50 Ω
Cartridge body: 14 kt gold
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Retail
Price including UK sales tax Ł8,850
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Retail
Price less sales tax Ł7,375
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"[...] I am
sure that it is the best Clearaudio cartridge I've heard
(and I've heard most of them) and, perhaps, the best
cartridge (a lot of) money can currently buy."
Jonathan Valin, High-End Analog Roundup
"To hear this thing on a really great, really dynamic
recording—such as Clearaudio's own sensational showpiece The
Percussion Record—is a jaw-dropping experience. Honestly,
this cartridge simply blows the walls out, delivering an
almost surround-like soundfield of unparalleled width and
depth, with the added bonus of the most thunderous,
floor-and-wall-shaking bass (and this record has some bass,
folks) I've heard in my room from the Magico Q5s (or any
speaker)."
Jonathan Valin, High-End Analog Roundup
"The Goldfinger comes closer than ever to neutrality, adding
substantially to overall transient speed and life like
timbre without sacrificing any of Clearaudio's traditional
strengths in soundstaging, extension and resolution at the
frequency extremes, and astonishing low-level detail. Along
with last year's cartridge of the year - the Air Tight PC-1
- the Goldfinger is currently the best mc we've reviewed."
JV forthcoming, The absolute sound
"The new Clearaudio Goldfinger Statement cartridge goes
where no cartridge has gone before, and improves on the
already sublime Gold?finger V2."
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