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Miyajima MADAKE experience

I've noticed that many (if not all) Kansui users tryin' to sell their Miyajima Kansui to upgrade to new released Madake of the higher price. I have zero experience with Kansui or Madake, but i have checked all the rave reviews (there are not so many btw) and spoken to several distributors in Eupore and USA. Seems like Kansui is great even with aluminum cantilever and shibata stylus. Everybody talking about organic sound and musicality of Miyajima top of the line cartridges.

BAMBOO CANTILEVER of the MADAKE is def. exotic solution along with Miyajima-san's CROSS COIL / CROSS RING method.

Appart from the distributors and reviewers it's always important to ask real users (who paid full price) about their Madake experience.

I wonder how this cartridge perform against top of the line modern hi-end cartridges such as ZYX, Benz, Dynavector ... you name it.

Anyone who didn't like it and why ?

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chakster OP
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Terry as you know Madake is top of the line and totally different:

"Instead of using a metal to fashion the cartridge's cantilever (aluminum, boron, etc) or a crystalline solid such as sapphire, ruby or diamond, the Madake actually uses BAMBOO. Madake is famously grown on one mountain in Kyoto, the site of a famous temple, and the source of the material used to make the cantilever of the Madake stereo phono cartridge."

How many cartridges with BAMBOO CANTILEVER exists in the history of Hi-End Audio ?

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A few images of the Bamboo cantilever linked below:

https://www.audiomeister.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/madake05.jpg

http://www.hfc.com.pl/Resources/news/miyajima-madake-XL.jpg
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And the specifications of Miyajima Madake MC:

　Impedance: 　About 16 ohms (About 0.23mV output)
　Frequency range: (-3dB) 　20 Hz to 32 kHz
　Tracking force: 2.5 g
　Stylus Shape: Shibata (diamond needle)
　Compliance (10Hz): around 9×10-6cm/dyne
　Appropriate temperature: 20-30 Celsius (most suitable 25 C)

　Weight: 　about 9.7g
　Body: 　African Blackwood

source: www.miyajima-lab.com/e-stereo.html
wrm57
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I like my Kansui well enough but really, this "grown on one mountain in Kyoto" stuff sounds too parodic for me to take it seriously. Unless, of course, cave monks have warmed the tiny bamboo slivers under their keisters while achieving absolute consciousness.
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Stefano Bertoncello visited Miyajima-Lab in 2009 and reported this in his blog:

"There I met Miyajima-san and his beautiful, well sounding audio system, and... his daughter, an handsome and skilled young artisan whose little, good hands were the responsible for hand-assemblying of ALL the MC cartridges which I saw in a batch under her hands."

full article with pictures here:
http://twogoodears.blogspot.ru/2009/10/wjaas-hakata-blues-miyajima-sanotono.html
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