Sumiko Palo Santos Presentation Moving Coil Phono Cartridge

Description

Sumiko Palo Santos Presentation Moving Coil Phono Cartridge
This is an amazing sounding phono cartridge! Was used as a demo cartridge with very light use. Original retail price was around 00
This is not your everyday phono cartridge and sounds best when paired with a a tonearm and turntable of matching or better caliber! Should be set up and calibrated by a professional. Willing to ship to the stereo store of your choice if you choose.
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A ‘reference’ cartridge strives to transcribe that extra bit of musical information that makes your music come alive. Subtleties like the snap & thump of the kick, the attack & rustle of the snare, fingers on the fretboard & vocal verisimilitude are just a few of the attributes a high-end MC is tasked with extracting and reproducing. Beyond just reproducing them, it must be a highly refined ‘Presentation’ across the frequency spectrum with an intimate awareness for the nuance that elevates performance beyond what can be expected from more affordable MCs.
A high-end wonder that performs at the level of more luxuriously priced moving coil designs, Sumiko’s Reference Palo Santos Presentation is primed to deliver this magic to your audiophile-caliber system. We’ve selected the gorgeous, hand-crafted Brazilian Rosewood housing for its resonant properties — the homogeny & warmth that it lends to a sophisticated, crystal-clear sonic picture that’s teeming with micro-detail. Featuring an ultra-rigid long-grain boron cantilever and line-contact Microridge stylus, tracking is superb and the groove is traced with the utmost finesse. Anchored to an uncompromising machined aluminum cradle and enclosed by a milled Teflon back plate, maximum rigidity and resonance control around the generator are achieved. This allows the voice of the cartridge to sing unimpeded by unwanted coloration and interfering resonance, precipitating to unrivaled honesty in playback.
On the bottom end, bass is buttery and inviting, ever-present and non-dominating. Lush & textural, it emerges from a silent backdrop and remains impeccably defined. Mids are free of clutter & confusion. Instruments and their nuances are vividly tangible while maintaining their natural warmth. Highs are enchantingly airy and wonderfully extended with a sparkle that promises to mesmerize. You can feel the emotion in dynamic shifts, and the musical material resolves effortlessly with charming decay back into the backdrop. Multidimensional yet whole and blossoming with previously unrealized sonic imagery, the result is an uncanny portrayal of your of your most cherished recordings.
Mass & Dimension
8.3g, 18 x 17.2 x 30.5mm (WxHxD)
Stylus
Solid Ultra Low-Mass 75µm x 2.5µm Microridge
Cantilever
⌀0.28mm Boron Shaft
Coils
High-Purity Copper
Internal Impedance
12Ω
Load Impedance
100 – 1kΩ
Frequency Response
10Hz – 50kHz
Output Voltage
0.5mV
Channel Separation
30dB @ 1kHz
Channel Balance
<0.5dB @ 1kHz
Compliance
12×10-8cm/dyn @ 100Hz
Capacitance
100pF – 200pF
Vertical Tracking Angle
20°
Tracking Force Range
1.8g – 2.2g
Recommended Tracking Force
2.0g