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Grado Statement4, dark brown ebony body with the GRADO logo engraved and a brown and gold stylus insert, from below
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Grado Statement4

Price$3,500.00

The Reference4's Shibata on boron in Brazilian ebony, at 1.0 mV only, for a moving coil phono stage.
Ordered from the maker when you order, then shipped usually inside two weeks and always inside thirty days. Shipping
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Specifications
  • Type Moving iron, flux-bridger
  • Body Brazilian ebony
  • Cantilever Machined boron
  • Stylus Nude Shibata
  • Output 1.0 mV, stereo, low output only
  • Load 10k to 47k ohms
  • Coil wire 7N OCC copper
  • Tracking force 1.6 to 1.9 g
  • Weight 10 g
  • Series Lineage
Why it is here

The Statement4 carries the Reference4's nude Shibata on machined boron, and three changes matter most. The body is Brazilian ebony, the copper inside is 7N where the Reference4's is 6N, and the output is 1.0 mV and nothing else. It's a little heavier too, 10 grams against 9.6.

Check that output first. A 1.0 mV cartridge needs a phono stage with moving coil gain, and Grado wants it loaded at 10k to 47k ohms rather than the low load a moving coil usually gets. On a moving magnet input, the Reference4 in high output carries the same diamond and cantilever.

Grado patented a stereo moving coil cartridge before it settled on moving iron, and its claim for this series is that moving iron can match a moving coil's resolution and speed.
How it is built

Brazilian ebony body. Nude Shibata diamond on a machined boron cantilever, 7N OCC copper coils, 10 grams.
What it is for

An arm that can balance 10 grams, and a phono stage with moving coil gain that you can set to 10k to 47k ohms.
Grado Statement4, dark brown ebony body with the GRADO logo engraved and a brown and gold stylus insert, from below
Grado Statement4 Price$3,500.00
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