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Finally armboard arrived. I installed the tonearm though I am not familiar with Ikeda or FR tonerms (just know Graham). Did not have much experience on antiskating will experience today. Installed Kai and Kansui to different headshells and tried (not quite sure the most optimum alignment but presume fair enough for a quick try). Kai is really special with 407, Kansui is also very nice but different. Kai excels in soundstage, liquidity, a midrange liquidity and presence to hear, upper tones almost excellent even from 0 hours. Kansui having better PRAT, more emphasis on midbass, still a very good tracker and detailed on mids/highs though not at the same level of Kai. Kai seemed to be slightly on the warm side though Kansui seemed more neutral to lean side. Btw, Kai was not bass shy, bass texture and decay seemed better compared to Kansui. Certainly, breaking in and better alignment should be factored in to make any critical judgement. For sure, both cartridges provide sheer musical pleasure. Compared to Orpheus/Graham, both cartridges with Ikeda had better liquidity, better midrange details and highs while Orpheus/Graham combo sounded best in bass details (might be a function of 9 inch vs 12 inch, tonearm differences as well as tonearm cables). More to come...
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Zyx Universe II is on its way home
 I did not think a high compliance and light body cartridge would perform as good as lower compliance ones with a high mass tonearm like Ikeda, but surprisingly a borrowed Zyx Omega G yielded fantastic on Ikeda tonearm, if not beating Kai, well, Kai is almost new while Zyx has been fully broken in but again it was a surprise when considering price tag as well as lo vs hi comp on a high mass tonearm. Perhaps it is the combination with rest of the system, Omega had excellent tonality, neutrality and well extended bass definition, soundstage was almost on par with Kai. Given Omega is not the highest cartridge Zyx offers and a high mass tonearm may not be the first choice for Zyx (I also have Graham) I decided to bite the bullet and try Uni II. Let's see...  Btw, cartridge evaluation is subjective to too many parameters and very system dependent so one may have different results with Zyx Omega, who knows... 
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 ). I could not resist him and now got Atlas. That is also a good opportunity for me to test one of the best cartridges out there with my system. So I decided to wait before buying Zyx Uni2 while dealing with Atlas.
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Agreed!
 
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