Goldring Eroica H

Posted by: PaulH on 14 March 2016

After my previous post (here) I finally decided on a Goldring Eroica H (the good deal at the Bristol Sound and Vision Show helped a lot....).

Installed the cartridge on Friday and did a bit of listening over the weekend (Kansas Smitty and Sonny Rollins mostly).

I'm happy with the cartridge - even more so that it has a higher output than my previous Osawa OS-60 so I can happily listen at 9 to 10 o'clock on the dial.

I guess it will take a while to burn in fully (anyone have an estimate for burn in time of a new cartridge?) and I'm looking forward to many hours enjoying the music!

Posted on: 14 March 2016 by Richard Dane

50 hours is not unusual. Indeed, while I've never run an Eroica, take a similarly priced MC cartridge like the AT OC-9MLII and it can frustrate during the first 50 hours, but after that, it suddenly all comes good and is astonishingly good. If you have ever heard one that isn't yet run-in, you have little idea of what it's capable of.

Posted on: 14 March 2016 by PaulH

Thanks Richard - I will just have to play lots of vinyl for the next few weeks to get it to run in properly. (What a hardship.... )