Goldring has been helping people enjoy recorded music in their homes for more than 100 years. The Legacy cartridge, its finest design, is the culmination of the knowledge and experience the company has accumulated over a century. Each Legacy cartridge is hand crafted to achieve one simple goal: to retrieve the complete musical performance from a vinyl record from the widest transient to the subtlest nuance. To ensure The Legacy reproduces an accurate transcription of the record groove, it must be rigidly mounted to the tone-arm, while simultaneously allowing the tiniest movements made by its diamond stylus to be transmitted, through the cantilever, to the sensing coils. To accomplish this aim, the cartridge boasts an ultra low resonance, magnesium body, which is both very light and extremely strong. For convenience and rigidity it has threaded inserts, allowing the cartridge to be easily mounted and accurately aligned into the tone-arm headshell. The diamond stylus is a highly polished, very low mass ‘Vital’ fine line design, chosen because of its exceptionally low distortion characteristic. To maintain rigidity, this is attached to a hard alloy cantilever that transfers the maximum level of detail from the diamond to the coils the latter are hand wound using only the highest purity copper. The bespoke rubber mixture, used to form the stylus damper, ensures optimum compliance, helping The Legacy deliver a smooth, extended frequency response. A precision, rare earth, Neodymium iron boron magnet contributes to its outstanding dynamics. The Legacy has a suggested retail price of £595 and will be available in the UK from October 2009.