Koetsu
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Yesterday I was tidying up and found a box of some of my diamond cantilever koetsus included in the above pictures is a rare black onyx, blue tiger eye, rare white jade, also a original sugano grey onyx personally later upgraded with diamond cantilever,rhodonite, brown tiger eye, blue onyx, azule. I have quite a few more too
Awesome. Something usually a dealer keeps in his stock inventory.
Thanks these are my personal cartridges you know how it is sometimes we are our biggest customersAwesome. Something usually a dealer keeps in his stock inventory.
Wow!Thanks these are my personal cartridges you know how it is sometimes we are our biggest customers
Congratulations on the fabulous collection.
Fantastic. I thought I was doing well with a tsugaru, black and the sut.
Do you have a favourite?
Would be hard to pick a favourite as all koetsu cartridge sound surperb.
I have quite a few more they all sound different and have their own traits. The black onyx is ver neutral and is very balanced great midrange and very good when it comes to grain, the Rhodonite is very explosive with great bass, the Blue lace onyx can be a be a bit of the soft side for some with its calm nature. I can go into alot of detail into each one for now for me personally I like the white Burma jade not the green one and the blue tiger eye and black onyx. But these are not available so can't really recommend them.
Koetsu seems like the ultimate "artisinal" cartridge manufacturer and their approach seems different from many other Japanese cartridge manufacturers. I see all the different stone bodies displayed with comments about their sound. Are the sound differences due only to the different stone materials used for the body ? Or are the internal "engines" all somewhat different to account for their various sounds? Stupid question #2: Are these designed by someone who says "I'm looking for a certain sound and I think a specific stone will provide that?" Or is a matter of "hey, that stone is pretty. Let's try it and see what it sounds like"?
I'm just trying to understand the line a little better.
I'm just trying to understand the line a little better.
I think the different stones and colours actually produce a different sound.I to wonder if the insides are the same.
I was told that the motor inside Koetsu is all the same. After a batch of motors were made, they are tested and graded.
The better ones are used in gem stone, lower grade ones are for wooden or other shells. The best ones are fitted with diamond cantilever.
Koetsu has always been a 'mysterious' company. From the outset, when the brand was being carried by dealers in Asia and North America, very few information can be seen. Not even the address of city where Koetsu is made has been published, even as of today. No company catalogue, in this era where manufacturers type volumes of tech hype and NASA materials to bolster their sales, Koetsu does not even provide a single piece of paper with their product to give specs or instructions. Yet, the company has grown their models to almost a level of proliferation of colors and shades of wood. As to the question, my answer will be the former. Yes, I'm looking for the Koetsu house sound where is mid is lush and musically tingling to the senses but my choice for this wood be the Rosewood Signature model. The stones provide a more 'modern' sound, maybe to counter some old criticism that its highs were rolled off and its bass, flabby and slow. And for me, the differences in the stones is like splitting hairs, I really cannot say much about the differences but I agree with a certain poster earlier who used a few words for some of the stone models.
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