Koetsu cartridges. They must be something special.

Do higher end Koetsu sound like better Mullard tubes ?

I heard about Kiseki. Dutch designer and they are made in Japan, right ?

Yeah, of course I meant that some had a few Koetsu cartridges.

They are no longer made. Is there a brand that has a similar sound signature and is quite good, though maybe not as good as better Koetsu ?

Etsuro Urushi..good to know.

No one forces anyone to buy luxury items. Unlike some other things. I have to pay outrageous electrical bills every month, as an example. Now this is hard to walk around, especially if renting. There is a number of people paying $10k+ for cartridges, and custom Brioni suit was about $30k the last time I read about it.

It might've been even better, and that's not what they wanted.

The very idea of matching cartridge and speakers is something that I have always thought of as being correct. And do fine tuning with tubes, starting with phono stage, of course.