Ha-ha-ha. We yearn for a review, so we can dump on it. The audiophile version of Catch-22. My neighbor up the street owns a Uni Premium. I have yet to hear it, but it was in his system that I first heard the "plain" original Universe, several years ago. Couldn't be nearly as good, because only $5,000. I think Nakatsuka-san figured out, perhaps with Mehran's help, that by constantly renaming his line of cartridges after slight modification to existing products, he can also gradually increase prices and get away with it, largely because of our top down ecosystems. If something costs more, it MUST be better. Or perhaps I am being too cynical. It does not matter to Lyra, Airtight, ZYX, Koetsu, etc, that most of us are priced out of their top tier products; they can sell those to the Oligarchs of the world, and we can pick at the lower level merchandise. If a Bugatti Chiron is $2M, why not a $15K phono cartridge?
Does the UNI Premium have the CF cantilever? I think that when I researched this question, I found that only the Ultimate series uses CF. I hope someone here will correct me, if I am wrong. By the way, the Ultimate is available in Tokyo, unlike any of the Universe models.
