Koetsu owners cartridge set up ?

I have a Koetsu jade. The ballpark starting point for loading a MC is 25 x resistance (5ohms) thus 125 ohms for a Koetsu.
I run mine at 500-1000 ohms. I tried 100 ohms and it was too closed in. I've also run it at 47 kohms but I think it sounds more organic below 1000 ohms.
I've noticed that people with good tube preamps tend to run them higher than with solid state. I think above 1000 ohms you lose some of the magic, IMHO.
VTF is set at 1.95 gms with the back of the cartridge very slightly down.
There's no one perfect set up. Try 100, 500, and 1000 and fine tune from there.

Yeah i ve turned the weight down a little , 1.91 grams at the moment .
I dont know why people call it overly warm or slow i would call it realistic at least in my set up which is not very "bloomy" in the first place ,dynamics are also fine in my view.

Andromedaaudio, I am notorious (in my own mind) for misreading other people's posts, but I don't see where you have specified which Koetsu you own. Among the "non"-Platinum non-stone-bodied Koetsus, I think the Urushi is unique in that it has better defined bass response and more extended highs than the rest. My point is that the Urushi might sound different from a Rosewood or Rosewood Signature, depending upon the load. I have always loaded my Urushi at 100 ohms and despite my now having been exposed to a number of other very good cartridges, I remain happy with it. The other guys have got me to thinking I should try 1000 ohms or slightly below, but I would bet that the Rosewood et al would be best with such a load. I did try 47K ohms with Urushi and found the sound a bit too thin and clinical for my tastes. This is with all-tube electronics driving ESL speakers.

Lewm,

How are the Rosewood different than the Urushi ?
Now have a rosewood & thinking of Urushi down the line.
Which model of Urushi do you own ?

Noli

I think all Urushi's are the same, but I own the one that is black with gold flecks of paint on it (can't remember the Japanese name for that). The Vermillon (red) may sound different from the rest because reportedly it has different coils. At one point, I read that the blue Urushi has silver-wired coils but then it turned out it has silver-plated copper wire, like all the others, or so it was recently written. I have read all sorts of different assertions about what is inside the various different forms of the Urushi. All I know is that I am very fond of mine.