Has anyone heard the Miyajima 'Snakewood' cartridge,

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. 

ADDENDUM:  Art  Dudley just used the Snakewood Madake in his Capital Audio showroom - and listening to a 1974 Connoisseur Society recording of Moravec's Chopin last night, I could hear the timbre of the WOOD in his Baldwin piano - I never got that from digital or from any other cartridge. Thrilling.

The Limited Edition Snakewood takes all the stunning attributes of the bamboo cantilevered Madake to a whole new level. They are trickling out of Japan due to the incredibly difficult process needed to machine the second hardest wood that also is so brittle that many attempts yield only one or two acceptable bodies. Anyone who has heard one has been thrilled one customer buyer another just to have a spare!
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robyatt - now that my Snakewood has fully bloomed, I think I am not exaggerating when I say it is a musical instrument in its own right.  And yes, it raises the already wonderful blackwood Madake to a new level altogether. I'm selling my Dyna-T, because there's no going back.