Platinum Blonde
The first step-up from the Opus3, the Platinum3 puts Jarrah wood and a twin magnet system to work for your favorite music.
The Platinum3 is a great example of what the Timbre Series is made for: to start listening to your music with more clarity and depth than you’ve heard before.
The Platinum3 is a great example of what the Timbre Series is made for: to start listening to your music with more clarity and depth than you’ve heard before.
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™.
We modified our four piece OTL cantilever technology to achieve a 10%
tip mass reduction over the Prestige Series and use ultra-high purity
long crystal (UHPLC) oxygen free copper wire in the coils. The Platinum3
uses a specially Grado designed elliptical diamond.
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.
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 go into each cartridge we build.
With Love.
Hand-Built in Brooklyn
Each
Platinum3 is hand-built by our team in Brooklyn, as it has been for
decades. Fine tuned for everything from entry-level turntables up to the
highest-end stereo systems, the solid mass of the wood helps keep the
Platinum3 steady and producing the Grado signature
Platinum3
Timbre Series
- Body: Australian Jarrah Wood
- Cantileaver: Aluminum / Elliptical Diamond
- 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: 9 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-Sensative to Capacitive Load
- Builds: High Output, Low Output, Mono