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Sumiko Pearl Moving Magnet Phono Cartridge

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Sumiko Pearl Moving Magnet Phono Cartridge

Our Oyster MM Cartridges

Our Oyster Series cartridges have established themselves as smooth, warm and refined alternatives to more aggressive-sounding options. They are exceptionally crafted with premium materials, enabling highly musical, poised and polished sonics that steer clear of listening fatigue. An integrated body and generator system stifles internal resonance and readily transfers uncontrolled energy from the cartridge to the tonearm where it is dissipated harmlessly. This reduces distortion and coloration, leaving you with pure analog fidelity that conveys the emotional message embedded in your music.

 

 

Handmade in Japan

Each Sumiko phono cartridge is hand-assembled by the world-class cartridge makers at Excel Sound in Yokohama, Japan – a relationship we’ve proudly maintained for nearly forty years. We use only the finest materials that combine to deliver performance that has enlightened generations of listeners. Each design is thoroughly auditioned until it meets our stringent standards for sound. Production is then executed by expert craftsmen with a collective eye for precision & quality. The result is a family of cartridges that render emotion through tonally balanced, refined and fatigueless analogue reproduction.

Featuring an improved low-impedance, low-noise generator, Amethyst renders stark black backgrounds from which music simply blossoms. To do justice to the improved generator, we add a low-mass nude line-contact stylus to an ultra-stiff, low-mass hollow cantilever. The overall reduction in moving mass propels the highest level of stylus fidelity, faithfully conveying its motion to the fixed coil assembly. Thusly Amethyst transcribes vivid detail, wowing dynamics and exceptional spacial imaging in an inviting, articulate soundstage. Music flows effortlessly with compelling depth, immersing you in the richness we all love about analogue sound.

Seated atop the entry-level range of classic Oysters, our classic Pearl phono cartridge has been dazzling listeners for decades.

Physically compatible with most tonearms on the market and a perfect fit for any MM system, it is a reminder that one doesn’t have to exhaust their budget for refined, fatigueless sound quality.

Dynamic, smooth and incredibly musical for its price, it is an evenly-balanced cartridge with enticing highs, decisive mids and deep, well-rounded bass. Pearl introduces our 0.3 x 0.7mil elliptical stylus, heightening detail retrieval, adding brilliance & improving on the stereo imaging of its sibling Black Pearl.

Mass & Dimension
 
6.0g, 11.6 x 20.26 x 27.24mm (WxHxD)
 
 

 
 
Stylus
 
0.3 x 0.7mil Elliptical
 
 

 
 
Cantilever
 
Aluminum Pipe
 
 

 
 
Coils
 
High-Purity Copper
 
 

 
 
Internal Impedance
 
1,130Ω
 
 

 
 
Load Impedance
 
47kΩ
 
 

 
 
Frequency Response
 
12Hz – 30kHz
 
 

 
 
Output
 
4mV @ 1kHz
 
 

 
 
Channel Separation
 
30dB @ 1kHz
 
 

 
 
Channel Balance
 
0.5dB @ 1kHz
 
 

 
 
Compliance
 
12×10-6cm/dyn @ 100Hz
 
 

 
 
Capacitance
 
100pF – 200pF
 
 

 
 
Vertical Tracking Angle
 
25°
 
 

 
 
Tracking Force Range
 
1.5g – 2.0g
 
 

 
 
Recommended Tracking Force
 
2.0g
 
 

 
 
Replacement Stylus Unit
 
RS Pearl
 
 
 

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