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Moonstone Cartridge MM
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The Sumiko Moonstone is Sumiko’s flagship Moving Magnet (MM) cartridge, known for its exceptional transparency and detail. Featuring a nude elliptical stylus and a 12Hz-40kHz frequency response, it delivers precise dynamics, an expansive soundstage, and articulate bass. With a 2.5mV output, it’s a top-tier MM upgrade, compatible with standard phono stages for highly resolving vinyl playback.
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Description
The Sumiko Moonstone Cartridge stands as the pinnacle of Sumikoās Moving Magnet (MM) offerings in the acclaimed Gem Series, delivering exceptional transparency and refinement. Crafted for discerning audiophiles, it features a nude 0.3 x 0.7 mil elliptical diamond stylus on an aluminum cantilever, allowing for superior groove tracing and unparalleled detail retrieval from your vinyl collection.
Handcrafted in Japan, the Moonstone boasts an expansive 12 Hz ā 40 kHz frequency response and a balanced 2.5 mV output, ensuring seamless compatibility with standard MM phono stages. Its sonic signature is characterized by neutrality, precise dynamics, and an exceptionally wide, deep soundstage with pinpoint imaging. Bass is articulate and impactful, mids are transparent, and highs are extended and airy without harshness. The resonance-optimized body with threaded inserts simplifies mounting and enhances performance. The Sumiko Moonstone is the ultimate MM upgrade, designed to reveal every nuance in your recordings, offering a captivating and highly resolving vinyl listening experience that challenges many entry-level MC cartridges.
Features
Designed for discerning, value-minded audiophiles, Rainier, Olympia & Moonstone supplement & complement their existing range of Oysters. They build upon, enhance & refine the sonic character that listeners worldwide have enjoyed for decades. New innovation in cartridge design addresses the problem of resonance ā the things that need to happen around a generator to voice a cartridge with honesty. The housing thusly disperses & dissipates resonance, making way for effortless, transparent sonics that are enlivened with intimate nuance. The voicing is true to natural harmonics, space around voices & instruments as well as their attack & decay. Unique to these 3 Oysters (not to mention Amethyst), experience a diminutive backdrop that bolsters sonic images with a degree of aptitude reminiscent of moving coil designs.
Upgrade Path
Rainier, Olympia & Moonstone replacement styli are interchangeable. We encourage you to follow the upgrade path to experience the best of what this design has to offer.
Hand-Crafted in Japan
From Oyster to Reference, each Sumiko phono cartridge is crafted by hand in Yokohama, Japan ā near the waters where our namesake Oysters dwell. Weāve selected by ear the finest materials that combine to deliver performance that has enlightened generations of listeners. Each design is thoroughly auditioned until perfected. Production is then executed by world-class cartridge makers with a collective eye for precision & quality. The result is a full horizon of cartridges eager to introduce themselves to your analog system ā we firmly believe thereās a perfect cartridge for you here.
Specifications
Stylus:0.3 x 0.7mil Elliptical
Cantilever:ā0.5mm Aluminum Pipe
Coils:High-Purity Copper
Internal Impedance:1,130Ī©
Load Impedance:47kĪ©
Frequency Response:12Hz ā 33kHz
Output:3.0mV
Channel Separation:30dB @ 1kHz
Channel Balance:0.5dB @ 1kHz
Compliance:12Ć10-6 cm/dyn @ 100Hz
Capacitance:100pF ā 200pF
Vertical Tracking Angle:25Ā°
Tracking Force Range:1.8g ā 2.2g
Recommended Tracking Force:2.0g
Replacement Stylus Unit:RS Rainier, RS Olympia or RS Moonstone (Interchangeable)
