The new Sumiko Blue Point No.3 High and Blue Point No.3 Low phono cartridges replace the venerable Blue Point No. 2. and there’s even more. Sumiko is one of our favorite phono cartridge brands and the ...

Is Sumiko’s new Oriole moving-coil cartridge the missing link between Songbird and Starling, and can it compete head-on with Hana, Ortofon, Audio-Technica, and Dynavector at $1,699? It’s been a while ...

The vinyl revival of recent years has also meant a renewed level of interest in products such as phono stages and cartridges. Sumiko has been in the business of cartridges for more than 40 years and ...

Sumiko knows plenty about cartridge manufacturing. The company was founded in 1982 and continues to build all of its cartridges in Japan to this day. The Rainier moving magnet sits at the more ...