Sumiko Starling Moving Coil Cartridge

Starling Moving Coil Phono Cartridge (High / Low), by Sumiko.

Starling MC is the flagship open architecture cartridge from Sumiko, exhibiting true high-end sound from a meticulously engineered device. If picture is worth 1000 words, Starling propels the question of what a sonic image might be worth.

Evident in the very existence of the phonograph hobby is the unique ability of music to reach us with a certain profundity that exists well outside of what we can hear. It can be said that feelings are what we’re chasing, and if invoked by the most convincing portrayal of your dearest recordings, those feelings can be all the more profound.

A sonic image can thus be priceless, and so Sumiko have designed Starling to realise that image in your system. Added to the resonance-optimised head block and generator borrowed from Songbird, Starling implements a rigid boron cantilever finished with an ultra-low-mass Microridge stylus.

Microridge is a diamond profile highly regarded worldwide for its even-handedness while simultaneously delivering richness & clarity. Bonded to the above assembly, rarely has this famous stylus achieved such agility in the groove — certainly not at Starling’s price. What you experience is gorgeously suspended sonic imagery that places you just where you want to be — front & center.

Features

• Accurate sound staging places you at the front & centre of the performance.
• Overhead mounting cartridge for installing into a headshell.
• CNC-machined aluminium mounting plate.
• Moving Coil cartridge design.
• Open body construction avoids resonances around the generator system.
• Nude Line-Contact diamond stylus profile.

Specifications

• Mass: 9.5 g
• Dimensions: 17 x 18 x 28.5 mm (W x H x D)
• Stylus: Solid Ultra-Low Mass 75 µm x 2.5 µm Microridge
• Cantilever: 0.28 mm Diameter Boron Shaft
• Coils: High-Purity Copper
• Internal Impedance: 28 Ω
• Load Impedance: >100 Ω
• Frequency Response: 12 Hz – 50 kHz
• Output: 0.5 mV @ 1 kHz
• Channel Separation: 35 dB @ 1 kHz
• Channel Balance: <0.5 dB @ 1 kHz
• Compliance: 12 x 10-6 cm/dyn @ 100 Hz
• Capacitance: 100 pF – 200 pF
• Vertical Tracking Angle: 20 degrees
• Tracking Force Range: 1.8 g – 2.2 g
• Recommended Tracking Force: 2.0 g
• Replacement Stylus Unit: Re-Tip Exchange - please contact us.

Included

• Cartridge + Stylus.

More Information

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