Sumiko Blue Point Special Evo III Moving Coil CartridgeNice Condition 300hrs Up for grabs is a really great cartridge that I had on my Linn Sondek (until I got a deal on a much more expensive cart). Guessing about 300 hours of usage. Played flawlessly. I dont have the original box, but Ill find something comparable to ship it in. ----Sumiko has been making high-quality phono cartridges for over 30 years. The Blue Point Special EVO III is the latest incarnation of the long-standing Blue Point Special moving-coil cartridge range and is the Japanese manufacturer’s lowest-cost, high-output MC offering. It is available as either low or high-output – the latter enabling it to be used without a step-up transformer, the former requiring the transformer or a phono stage with a moving-coil input. Our review sample is a high-output version, although the specifications of both are the same.Weighing in at 8.3g, the EVO III is the most affordable Sumiko offering to utilise an ultra-low resonance open generator design. This features a resonance-controlled mounting plate in order to offer the lowest possible mechanical impedance. The cartridge has a rated compliance of 12 x 106cm/dyne (or 12 µm/mN), which makes it a medium-compliance cartridge ideally suited to tonearms of effective mass between 11g and 25g.The stylus tip is a 0.3 x 0.7µm elliptical diamond, mounted on a chemically coated aluminium pipe cantilever. At the other end of the cantilever the generator coils sit within a Alnico permanent magnet and generate 2.5mV at 1kHz. Tracking force is between 1.8g and 2.2g, with 2g force recommended.On Jul-18-23 at 07:28:09 PDT, seller added the following information: This is the High Output version and will work with a MM preamp stage