The latest step on an icon’s journey, is the Sumiko Blue Point No. 3 Low Output Moving Coil Cartridge.
- Full and warm yet defined and textured bass and mids with impressive high-frequency attack and decay.
- Overhead mounting cartridge for installing into a headshell
- Moving Coil Cartridge design
- Elliptical diamond stylus
Making A New Icon
The Blue Point No. 3 Moving Coil was born out of an investigation into the long-standing Blue Point No. 2’s more limited anti-resonance properties. Resonance has a more significant impact than many listeners realise, and Sumiko wanted to reimagine how the housing resonates around the generator in the Blue Point range.
After countless hours of development, a new combination of materials alongside an improved body design and expert assembly techniques results in a cartridge where only the musical information is kept.
Straight To the Point
Thanks to Sumiko’s tried and true moving coil cartridge generator system, the smoothness and subtlety one would expect from a good MC is present. Building on this, Blue Point No. 3 assembles its sonic picture from the ground up with its low-end response. Full and warm yet defined and textured, the depth of bass will invite you into the musical image.
In addition, you can expect a similar richness through the mids that remain decipherable. High-frequency attack and decay are simply sweet and airy.
High Or Low Output
Having developed refinement on a classic design, introducing both a high and low-output variant was a logical option considering Sumiko’s competency in both high and low-output MC designs. So, whether you need a cartridge that can run capably on an MM-compliant phono stage or if you have a more adept MC design, you can get the Blue Point No. 3 cartridge that best suits your taste and your system.
Technical Specifications
- OUTPUT VOLTAGE: 0.5 mV
- CHANNEL BALANCE (@ 1000HZ): < 1 dB
- CHANNEL SEPARATION (@ 1000HZ): 30 dB
- CHANNEL SEPARATION (@ 15000HZ): 20 dB
- FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 13 – 35,000 dB
- STYLUS TYPE: 0.3 x 0.7mil Elliptical
- TRACKING FORCE RANGE: 1.8 – 2.2 g
- RECOMMENDED TRACKING FORCE: 2.0 g
- TRACKING ANGLE: 20 ยฐ
- MAGNET TYPE: Alnico
- CANTILEVER MATERIAL: Aluminium Tube
- RECOMMENDED LOAD IMPEDANCE: > 100 ฮฉ
- RECOMMENDED LOAD CAPACITANCE: 100 – 200 pF
- CARTRIDGE WEIGHT: 6.0 g
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