Fidelity Research cartridges

Dear chakster, We in Europe are very fond about those ''Encyclopedia's''. They cover 3 m in one's library and testify 
about ''high ranking'' of the person involved. ''High ranking'' in academic sense. Lucky us we don't need to spend so much
money on ''books''. We have chakster as our ''encyclopedia''.
Obviously Russian internet should not be underestimated. 
My brother Don got the other model with a shell called ''Supremo''
but without stylus. However Don also owns Decca and knew that
the person by ''Expert stylus'' is a good friend with the new owner
of Decca. So his speculation was that both will figure out how to
fix his Supremo. They deed so Don got his Supremo much cheaper
than Nandric his Rex. Both carts are bought in Japan . I hate
their intermediary. All of them charge fees for totally unknown
services...

As about suspension - EM has hollow white neoprene balls as part of suspension. Not balls to be exact it’s more looks like short white mushrooms.

In my 9 CV it’s less complicated - no "mushrooms" present.  

Suspensions are different.

nandric, my CV was rebuilt by my friend ~ 1 year ago, if Expert stylus will fail ask him:  service et cartridgeretip dot com

Was it problematic to find fully working original sample?
I use only original cartridges, all my FR and Ikeda are like new, fully original. I wouldn't do any rebuild of any special cartridges handcrafted by masters like Ikeda. I would rather find another original sample in mint condition if something wrong with those carts, but luckily mine are good. 

If there anyone else who will rate Miyabi cartridges over FR-7f and Fz ? 

If you speak about Ikeda cantileverless yes it's difficult to get it as new. Mine CV had some distortion in left channel. Not much but after a while it was evident that I have to look for service. In Ikeda canleverless is you start to get distortion ussually it doesn't mean that diamond is worn it means that magnet gap is filled with debris and coils can't move freely. You have to keep your very records clean if you want to use it for a long time without worries. Cleaning isn't the service which changes sound or Ikeda ideas. Also Ikeda used quite tricky method to align coils and to void vobble of stylus but it can be adjusted quite fast if it is known what to do.
Em price in Yahoo japan was circa 200 eur so I was too curious not to try. This time it won't be easy as master will have to do new coil but for such peanuts it's worth to try. Diamond is good.