Miyajima Destiny
Product Code: MJC013
£6,245.83
ex-vat: £ 6,245.83
Noriyuki Miyajima has been producing extraordinary artisanal cartridges for decades. His designs, which feature an ingenious cross-coil moving coil generator and damping system, produce a full-bodied, supremely musical sound that recalls vintage audio systems, but with the high resolution and articulate frequency extremes of the finest modern cartridges. All Miyajima cartridges are low-compliance, and therefore suitable for high- and medium-mass tonearms, like the Thomas Schick and some of Frank Schröder’s designs.
The Miyajima Destiny features a bamboo cantilever with a nude line contact diamond stylus.
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Press Reviews
“The Destiny takes the Snakewood’s speed and detail, backs it off slightly, returns some of the early cartridges’ bottom-end richness and weight, and makes everything bigger and bolder, yet well-proportioned. In other words, everything promised by Noriyuki Miyajima, who also says, ‘When you finish listening to the LP, you will feel like clapping players unintentionally.’ I agree with that too! Whatever it means.
“It’s nice when the manufacturer and reviewer are on the same page! The Madake Snakewood is a great cartridge (I own one), but in my opinion the Destiny is for now Miyajima Labs’ best performing cartridge.”
“The Miyajima is one of the smoothest sounding cartridges and has just enough dynamics to keep me wanting to re-experience it, despite having the Top Wing at hand. Next to the Top Wing Suzaku, the Miyajima is my best-value audio investment. Additionally, between the ultra-smooth $10,000 Koetsu Jade Platinum and the $12,000 Van den Hul The Colibri XGW Master Signature, the Miyajima Destiny does the most impressive balancing act and for a whole lot less. If you are looking to experience how good vinyl can get, the Miyajima Destiny may just be all the reference cartridge you’ll need for a very long time.”
Specs
- Body material
- African blackwood
- Stylus
- Nude line contact
- Frequency response
- 20 Hz to 32 kHz
- Weight
- 13..3 g
- Tracking force
- 2.5 g
- Internal impedance
- 16 Ohms
- Recommended load
- 100 Ohms
- Output
- 0.23 mV
- Compliance
- About 9×10-6cm/dyne