Grado Sonata4

The olive wood housing is chosen specifically for its acoustic properties, acting as a natural dampener to control resonance. This helps minimize unwanted vibrations, allowing the cartridge to deliver a cleaner, more balanced tonal response.

The moving iron design uses a lighter magnet assembly, which results in a significantly lower moving mass. This reduction in mass allows the stylus to track the grooves of your records with greater precision and speed, leading to improved detail retrieval.

With a weight of 9.4 grams and a compliance of 20μm/mN, the Sonata4 is compatible with a wide range of modern tonearms. However, it is always best to check your tonearm's effective mass to ensure it pairs well with this level of compliance.

You should set your tracking force between 1.6 and 1.9 grams. We recommend starting at 1.75 grams and making minor adjustments based on your specific system's performance and your listening preference.

The Sonata4 is available in both high and low output versions, so you need to match the cartridge to your phono stage's capabilities. The high output version is generally compatible with standard moving magnet (MM) inputs, while the low output version will require a dedicated moving coil (MC) or high-gain phono stage.

The nude elliptical diamond is shaped to make better contact with the groove walls compared to simpler stylus profiles. This shape provides a smooth, natural frequency response and helps extract more nuance and detail from your vinyl records.