Cartridges! Why are they so damned ugly.

[Diamond Joe]

I find cartridges sexually arousing.

*shok*

 

[Al ears]

I find cartridges sexually arousing.

*shok*

Go and take a cold shower this minute.

 

[Al ears]

Back in the early 90s we sold a couple of these...

Around £4-5k then, very rare.

This on the other hand was priced at about £1k, we sold shed loads, well quite a lot anyway.

Kiseki recently produced a limited edition of the Purple Heart Boron, a 'budget' version of the Purple Heart Saphire shown above. The Boron was £2k.

So it's not a Koetsu then? Never got my head round Japanese.

They do look a tad similar.

At the time when vinyl playback was the undisputed king of hi-fi, the moving coil cartridge was an absolutely essential part of the magic.

Koetsu, via their importer Absolute Sounds were the high end cartridge of choice through the 80s but by a very fortunate co-incidence we sourced Kiseki cartridges that offered a real alternative and a bit of a cost saving too.

The most popular was the Kiseki Purple Heart Saphire, half the price of a Koetsu Red signature and with a slightly lighter balance more suited to uk rooms and systems.

Easy to tell apart once you knew the score, fixing holes in a full length flange on the Kiseki, small wing like protuberences on the Koetsu.

or

Easy.

You'd never know Kiseki wasn't Japanese would you?

 

[Vladimir]

Will you Decca me?

 

[bigfish786]

Will you Decca me?

That looks like a 13amp plug made of Bakelite

 

[bigfish786]