There's a certain mystique attached to Japanese high-end pick-up cartridges. In the glory days of the turntable there were names like Grace, Supex, Nagaoka, Denon and Dynavector to conjure with; and then there were the legendary names like Koetsu and Kiseki, whose products commanded prices well out of reach of the normal music lover. Nowadays, the Koetsu name continues and we have other brands producing finely crafted cartridges, such as Sumiko, Transfiguration, Lyra/ScanTech and Zyx. But there are other less well-known pick-ups coming from Japan today that rarely see the light of day in Europe, including the two reviewed here.
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