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Has anyone heard the Miyajima 'Snakewood' cartridge,

a limited edition successor to the Madake ? A Google search turns up no hits on it - maybe it’s too new and too rare to garner a critical review - so I’m polling for anyone’s personal experience with it ?
Thanks.
dr-john
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I can now answer my own question, having installed a Miyajima Snakewood in my TW Raven Limited table.  It is a Madake but with a body  of snakewood, extremely hard, dense and expensive. I'll continue with my impressions as it breaks in.
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@dr-john great, don't forget to tell us more about your reference cartridges compared to madake snakewood
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I've lived with the Dynavector XV-T1 for several years and with the Kansui before that.  They portray different sound worlds altogether. As the Snakewood Madake unfolds, I'll be glad to post my impressions and comparisons.  I'm a chamber, vocal and opera listener, heavy into strings and the human voice. (A lifelong quest to own a mint tulips set of Karajan's Walkure remains unfulfilled.)  For keyboard, I defer to digital.  A Shindo Giscours pre-amp contributes not a little to the proceedings as well. Thanks for asking.
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and may I add now, its existence is very hush hush.  Understandably. 
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Dear dr-john, There is von Karajan's complete Ring on DGGG with

Walkure cast to die for: Vickers, Stewart, Crespin and Talvela.

Should be easy to get in Europe.

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