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In the Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges.
Post Subject: Koetsu Rosewood Signature PlatinumPosted by Stitch on: 6/24/2009
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This is one example of the very successful marketing Hypes and in Reality this cartridge is sonically not better than those for 1k (at best)
I did compare it with a Lyra Helikon.
Arms: Fr-64s, Fr-66s (in a way, the best match for Koetsu from all Arms I ever listened to)
What disturbed me most, is, the RSP is very colored AND not transparent. It always sounds like listening thru a thin curtain.
In the very first moments it is good (not sharp, not thin...) but after a few records you discover, it is always the same, it is leveling everything.
The cartridge does not go up with the records, always nice and easy...
It is like looking into a Box, left, right and back in the soundfield, and with the Helikon it is like going out of house, clear, Holographic body, Height and Size from Instruments is much better, maybe in a way, real.
The midrange is very dominant, nice to listen to, but at the end of day, the high frequency is limited and the Bass has no body.
I guess this cartridge is super for those analytical High end Systems which produce pain while listening (there are lots of them out there).
This cartridge is the rescue.
For them.
I did listen to most of all Koetsus, none impressed me, I simply expected more for their extremely high pricing. Now I wanted to try it in my System.
Some of my friends recommend this RSP, it should be the best from all Koestus (weight ratio+Platinum Magnet), but it didn't made my day.
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