Has anyone heard the Miyajima 'Snakewood' cartridge,

And I should mention also that the now-pin-point imaging is noticeably sharper within a more expansive soundstage than what the Blackwood Madake renders - though the Shuguang Black Treasure KT-88’s in the VAC Phi 300 may contribute there as well.

amazing - I'm playing the Beethoven Quartet box by Juilliard- and it's tracking musically like no other cartridge before. 

Last night the Snakewood Madake opened even further, allowing me to occupy the space, even the height, of the recording venue of Solti's Don Carlo on London.  Tonight I fed it through the Miyajima KSW SUT to achieve a 'rightness' of analog playback I've never achieved before in my system. I'm sure more will be revealed.  A match made in heaven. 

after sufficient hours for the Snakewood Madake to open into the KSW SUT, a play of the many Philips chamber works followed by the DGG tulips Karajan Rheingold convinces me I can live happily with this and my Shindo Giscours pre-amp for years ahead.  There's nothing I would change ......   

After your post i saw a few other models in snakewood body.