Gold Note Giotto Moving Coil Turntable Cartridge

Regular price £2,400.00
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Gold Note’s Giotto MC cartridge features a boron cantilever and Ultra Micro Elliptical diamond for precise tracking, wide frequency response and refined detail. Handcrafted from duralumin, it delivers balanced, dynamic, low-noise sound with excellent imaging and groove accuracy.

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Free next weekday delivery

When you spend over £75, we will send you a tracking number where DPD will give a one hour delivery window. Services available Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) to most mainland UK addresses for in stock items ordered before our cut-off time at 3:30pm. Terms apply.

Free Saturday delivery 

When you spend over £299. We will send you a tracking number where DPD will give a one hour delivery window. Services available to most mainland UK addresses for in stock items ordered before our cut-off time on Friday 3pm. Terms apply.

Free Sunday delivery 

Free next-day delivery with DPD is available when you spend over £299. Orders must be placed before 3:30pm on Friday to qualify. You will receive a tracking number, and DPD will provide a one-hour delivery window on the day of delivery. This service is available to most mainland UK addresses for in-stock items ordered before our daily cut-off time. During peak holiday periods, cut off time is Saturday 2:00pm. Sunday delivery is available in selected locations. Terms and conditions apply.

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Standard next day delivery is free for all orders to most UK mainland addresses. All other delivery prices are determined by the destination, the service chosen and the value and weight of your order. Addresses in the Scottish Highlands, offshore, Northern Ireland & Ireland may incur additional delivery costs, depending on the items ordered.

Stylus & Cartridges Return Policy

Unfortunately perishable items such as turntable cartridges and stylus once opened or used cannot be returned.

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Giotto is Gold Note's latest MC cartridge, featuring a refined Ultra Micro Elliptical diamond and Boron cantilever. This is the perfect combination to ensure extended frequency response with outstanding dynamics, fine details, precise imaging and elegant sound with any vinyl.


The Giotto cartridge represents one of the most advanced expressions of Gold Note engineering: it has been designed to satisfy the most demanding audiophiles, those who aspire to impeccable musical reproduction, capable of enhancing every sonic nuance, even the most imperceptible.

Each element is the result of careful design and a hand-crafted production process, which blends state-of-the-art technology and excellent materials. The cartridge body is machined from a solid block of duralumin 7000, a high-performance alloy chosen for its structural rigidity and ability to effectively dampen unwanted vibrations. The boron cantilever, known for its exceptional rigidity and lightness, works in synergy with the Ultra Micro Elliptical diamond to ensure extremely precise tracking. This combination minimises wear and tear on the vinyl and the cartridge itself, for a sound performance rich in detail and a pure, dynamic sound: each instrument is defined and rendered three-dimensional, effortlessly, within the environment.
Giotto is characterised by neutrality and balance, incredible silence, excellent reading of the grooves, even the innermost ones of the vinyl, and a stupendous capacity for perspective reconstruction of the sound image, for unforgettable listening sessions.

Maximum Compatibility

Giotto offers a wide and linear frequency response of 10-40000Hz, returning deep and controlled low frequencies, natural mids and brilliant high frequencies. Listening becomes an experience that faithfully restores the sound scene and emotional intent of the original recording.
Special attention has been paid to compatibility: the 0.35mV output level and 8Ω impedance are optimised to allow ideal matching with a wide range of phono preamplifiers and high-end analogue systems. Whether in a purely analogue system or a complex high-end configuration, Giotto fits in naturally, always revealing the system’s full potential.

Specifications

Type: MC low output phono cartridge
Output level: 0.35 mV
Frequency response: 10–40,000 Hz
Impedance: 8 Ω
Suggested load: 100 Ω
Compliance: 12 × 10⁻⁶ cm/dyne
Channel separation: > 30 dB
Suggested tracking weight: 2 g
Cantilever: Boron
Diamond: Ultra micro elliptical 5 × 150 µm
Weight: 10 g
Body: Duralumin 7000

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