Koetsu Rosewood Vs Rosewood Signature Vs HANA UMAMI RED advice please

If you favour a detailed cartridge you should consider the Lyra Kleos.
I use a Lyra Skala & it is stunning...superb tracking as well.

Hey @terry9 - I have not heard the Rosewood platinum (and you have the full diamond cantilever no less) but I was led to understand that this cartridge got you a lot of what the more expensive Koetsus offered. For me, I won’t declare it an absolute in any sense, but the stone bodies compensated for weaknesses elsewhere in my system so I’m now at a point where the system is the best I've had it since I put the core components together in 2006-7. I fire it up and enjoy the sound. So many great records out there, so little time....

I have a 11“ 4Point and of all the cartridges I used with it, I like my Koetsu Urushi most. Neither Lyra Etna, Kleos, Zyx 4D, DV XX 2 MK II were such a good match with the 4Point.
So in my opinion you can‘t go wrong with the Koetsu Rosewood Signature ;)

Dear @astorfor : I can see that you really don’t read the overall information in the cartridge links I posted to you, look:

the ZYX ultimate Omega is posted directly by the USA exclusive distributor SoraSound.

The Benz Micro and the Dynavector links were posted for a seller with an impeccable feedback after hundreds of sold cartridge operations.

As I told you, any of these cartridges outperforms the Rosewood Signature. I owned the RSP and yes this is at the level of those cartridges and in some specific sound quality performance a little better and in others a little inferior but very good performer.
I’m not trying to diminish the Rosewood Signature but you ask for cartridges inside your budget.

All the cartridges in those links comes with a high discount over its retail price, are cartridges over 5K one of them around 9K and the owner of that ZYX has 100% satisfaction in its feedback.

I don’t care at all, it’s your money but if I was you I never buy the Rosewood Signature against the other ones even the Umami is better. But that’s me.

As I said good luck.

R.

Hello @whart . Good to hear from you!

About the K line, I have heard several people say this as well, that the KRSP is the sweet spot. Mulveling says that the difference between KRSP and stone is not large, but that the difference between boron and diamond cantilever is the place to spend. If I have rendered his views correctly.

Anyway, love the cartridge, but with the cost of rebuilding the d/c, I’m kind of thinking about finding a second stringer. Hence the question about SoundSmith.

Are you sure that your stone bodies aren’t simply revealing what was already there? "Cause I don’t think that my KRSP is making up for anything - just the opposite - it doesn’t suffer error gladly. Every time my adjustment gets finer, so does the sound.

Latest adjustment was a panzerholz wand for the tonearm. I hope to have my take on an air bearing design up in a few months, and then maybe I’ll be in the market for a Kuzma like yours!