Kiseki Purple Heart N.S.

Up for sale is the Kiseki Purple Heart with about 250ish hours.  Original wooden box included.

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Specs:
Body: PurpleHeart Wood, 30 mm long
Cantilever: Solid Boron Rod: 0.3 mm diameter
Stylus: 0,12 x 0,12 Nude line-contact diamond, mirror polished
Stylus tip radius: 4 x 120 µm
Vertical Tracking Angle (VTA): 20 degrees
Coil: pure iron coil body
Weight: 7 grams
Output voltage: 0.48 mV at 5 cm/s
Internal impedance: 42 ohms
Frequency response: 20 - 30.000 Hz ± 1 dB
Channel balance: 0.2 dB
Channel Separation: 35 dB at 1 kHz
Tracking ability at 315 Hz at a tracking force of 2.6 grams: 80 µm
Dynamic Compliance: 16 µm/mN
Recommended loading: 400 ohms
Recommend tracking force: 2.0 – 2.6 grams
Optimum tracking force: 2.4 grams

In the March, 2015 issue of Stereophile, Analog Guru Michael Fremer commences a four-page love affair with the new Kiseki Purpleheart N.S. phono cartridge.

“If you care about looks,” Fremer says, “the Purpleheart NS has the goods.” (Personally, I find both the Blue and Purpleheart to be among the most attractive transducers ever to hang off the end of a tonearm….) When it comes to sound, Fremer found “…the Purpleheart N.S. produced a rich, inviting harmonic structure right out of the box…. Broken in and tracking at 2.5gm, the Purpleheart tracked most everything I threw at it.” Best of all, he promises, “The cartridge didn’t have a sonically unpleasant  bone in its body but, when the recording did, the Kiseki gave me enough of it to communicate it effectively.”

The review concludes: “Overall, the Kiseki Purpleheart N.S. is a physical and sonic beauty…In today’s world of crazy-priced cartridges, it offers a sophisticated sound well beyond what you’d expect at its $3,299 price….”