Kiseki Purpleheart

Bargain hunters versus connoisseurs. The first mentioned look at the price

the second for ''the master'' who made them. Say Ikeda-san, Takeda-san,

(Jan) Allaers, Reto Andreoli, J.Carr , etc. Those which are rarely offered for sell.

This is the indication that the owners are not willing to part from them.

They do not ask for price but use the opportunity to ''grab'' the wanted one.

I for example (sic!) was waiting for two years to find  Ikeda's REX ,  his

latest cantileverless kind. What is common to them all is ''made by the

master himself''. One can see, for example, many Van den Hul's for sell.

But nobady is sure if the ''master himself'' made them. Nobody even

knows how many employee he has,

And regarding new Kiseki's one can see that many are offered second

hand. I owned all of the old and still own 4 kinds. The difference can

be seen in the used parts. The old used Dynavector parts the new

unknown kind. Anyway the old sound much better than the new .

I am sure that Raul has never heard any new Kiseki otherwise

he would not recommend the new  purpleheart.

Dear edgewear,

I wrote to Durob Audio in Holland (which owner is Van den Dungen who also

owns an factory in China for tubed amps)  about my problem with Agaat. 

To my big surprise I got an answer from the ''master himself''. He propsed

to me to post my Agaat to him because he was looking for ''someone'' for

his own Kiseki's. (???). 

Regarding Van den Hul our (Dutch) information is that he spend the most

of his time in Ukraine with his cables meant for aircraft industry. He himslef

make some of his carts in order  to keep his skills in order. He also owns

''some more'' companies so it is very difficult to believe that he make all

''his'' Colibries . On German site ''audio-markt.de'' one can see many 

Colibries offered as second hand. This means for less than half of their

retail price. I hope you got the ''good one''(grin).