Sumiko
Palo Santos Presentation
Introduced 2010$8,999 MSRP
The Palo Santos Presentation is Sumiko's flagship low-output moving-coil cartridge, built with a handcrafted Brazilian rosewood body, a long-grain boron cantilever, and an ultra-low-mass Micro-Ridge/line-contact diamond stylus (The Absolute Sound; Paulmoney Hifi). Sumiko's key design update over the prior Pearwood Celebration II is a new generator-anchoring system where the front yoke is press-fit against an Alnico magnet to improve rigidity and lower resonance and background noise (Horn.eu).
MSRP
$8,999
Used market · Good
$1,650
-82% vs MSRP
as of Sep 1, 2026MSRP to used market
From $8,999 at launch to $1,650 today.
Specifications
- Price
- $3,500 original / $8,999 current
- Weight
- 8.3 g
- Body material
- Handcrafted Brazilian rosewood (Palo Santos)
- Load impedance
- 100–1,000 ohms
- Output voltage
- 0.5 mV @ 1 kHz
- Tracking force
- 1.8–2.2 g (2.0 g optimum)
- Cantilever stylus
- Long-grain boron cantilever, Ogura Vital Design PH / Microridge diamond stylus, 75 x 2.5–4 µm
- Channel separation
- >30 dB @ 1 kHz
- Frequency response
- 10 Hz – 40 kHz ±1.5 dB
- Internal impedance
- 12 ohms
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