Originally Posted by
Mike Reed
I agree. The Sugano son offerings (post 2004 ish) brought his father's signature sound into the modern age. Still very Koetsu, but more dynamic. I do wonder just what the stone bodied ones (esp. the Coralstone) bring to the party over the Urushi range. However, price and arm compatibility will probably mean that I'll never know, barring a high premium bond win !
The coral stone is not as warm as the early koetsu,s but does have a very solid bas and lovely midrange flow but a little boring, the Jade is warmer sounding but very boring, the tiger eye tends to be my fav at the moment it has a good balance of warmth and detail, much more open and fleshed out than say a Madake
The black Oynx is stunning it has a shimmering midrange we compared it to other stone bodied varients but very rare I have a friend in Austria who has one he has one on a Airforce one with SAT arm and also has rare red stone bodied one on a Micro seiki 8000 mk2 like mine with a axiom tonearm I prefer the sound of his Micro with the red onyx compared to black one and the black one on the Airforce.
Generally the stone bodied cartridges are faster sounding with greater bass depth and far more transparent voices are fuller sounding. The Diamond cantilevered cartridges are magical a different class the best I have heard is a Blue Tiger eye with diamond cantilever my dealer has one on his own turntable he kindly allowed me to hear it at home. Each stone bodied cartridge seems to possess its own unique trait,the wonderful world of audio madness.I use a boron tiger eye for now and sometimes a blue onyx boron I cant justify the diamond cantilever at 4.5k premium maybe one day.
Last edited by Vrajbasi; 28-08-2018 at 14:54.
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