I have a Koetsu Jade with diamond cantilever.
when I bought the Jade originally it had a standard cantilever but after an “accident” (from which I still experience ptsd) it went back to Koetsu via the UK importer and they took pity on me and offered to rebuild it with a diamond cantilever at something less than the crazy retail price...
Maybe I was expecting too much but mounted in my FR 66s arm with Arche headshell and aggalos silver headshell wires it gets brought out once in a blue moon: my vastly preferred London Decca Reference , various FR 7s and SPU’s all (to my low rent ears) sound nicer.
Somebody I know with much better hearing than me and a huge amount of experience listening to high end systems (as well as much live classical) prefers my Koetsu Urishi vermillion to the Jade in my system.
His comment is that the Jade makes everything sound like the Jade ...
when I bought the Jade originally it had a standard cantilever but after an “accident” (from which I still experience ptsd) it went back to Koetsu via the UK importer and they took pity on me and offered to rebuild it with a diamond cantilever at something less than the crazy retail price...
Maybe I was expecting too much but mounted in my FR 66s arm with Arche headshell and aggalos silver headshell wires it gets brought out once in a blue moon: my vastly preferred London Decca Reference , various FR 7s and SPU’s all (to my low rent ears) sound nicer.
Somebody I know with much better hearing than me and a huge amount of experience listening to high end systems (as well as much live classical) prefers my Koetsu Urishi vermillion to the Jade in my system.
His comment is that the Jade makes everything sound like the Jade ...