A year ago, and after having read so many reviews for Kiseki Purple Heart I had purchased one. it’s a very musical cartridge and will do fine for no critical listenings.
I didn’t have any technical problem with that Kiseki, however it was given as a present to a guy who had purchased a Prime Signature and had asked me to set his turntable as he wanted to use an old AT MM cartridge.
That Kiseki had a channel separation of 31 dB.soon after I had purchased a second Kiseki Purple Heart to be used to my second Tonearm. The second Koseki had from the beginning channel separation issues (couldn’t get them over 24db) and only after less than 10 hours of playing, the cantilever slipped and was fallen off the cartridge while the armtone was on the armrest.
The Local dealer had sent the cartridge to Kiseki the same day for inspection with the belief that they would see the obvious, that no stress or mishandling, had caused this and get a replacement. six days later I was advised that any cantilever related issue of any nature and cause is not being covered under any warranty.
Lesson learnt and 3,000 euro were thrown in garbage bin!
I didn’t have any technical problem with that Kiseki, however it was given as a present to a guy who had purchased a Prime Signature and had asked me to set his turntable as he wanted to use an old AT MM cartridge.
That Kiseki had a channel separation of 31 dB.soon after I had purchased a second Kiseki Purple Heart to be used to my second Tonearm. The second Koseki had from the beginning channel separation issues (couldn’t get them over 24db) and only after less than 10 hours of playing, the cantilever slipped and was fallen off the cartridge while the armtone was on the armrest.
The Local dealer had sent the cartridge to Kiseki the same day for inspection with the belief that they would see the obvious, that no stress or mishandling, had caused this and get a replacement. six days later I was advised that any cantilever related issue of any nature and cause is not being covered under any warranty.
Lesson learnt and 3,000 euro were thrown in garbage bin!