First Belasol polish!
Used by firemen for their parade helms…
Then the Mercedes polish for the finish…
The cartridge is the Rosewood Signature from Koetsu.
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Drago, it has been available on our website for several years actually. But now my stocks of spare parts are dwindling and I’ll shortly be getting to a point where I have to decide whether to go for another production batch or cease making them FYI.
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My Dynavector XX2 mkii which sounds surprisingly good with the Yamamoto hs 1a headshell . Used to have in previous system the xv1s, can’t say I am disappointed at all with the XX2 mk2 .. Of course, the xv1 is certainly in my future
upgrade path, especially now with the recent launch of the xv1 Prima and xv1 Ultima replacing the S and T versions respectively.
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Nice tone arm 
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Love that cartridge, I bought one for my Rega PLanar 3 / RB 300 years ago, and it still plays beautifully in my son’s system.
Claude
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Jesus, that cartridge is lasting very well! 
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There is a “debate” on a different tread at the moment on “Stylus life”. This should be posted on there as well. 
It sure is.
This said, there are two things to consider: 1) It was technically the earlier MP 50 model and 2) The stylus was replaced once, which is relatively easy to do on a Nagaoka.
Claude
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Yes but 300 years old
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Oh I see where the confusion lies…
I meant that the cartridge was put on my Rega Planar 3 with its RB300 tonearm years ago, not 300 years ago!
I’m not a young pup, but that would have been a looong time ago!
Claude
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No confusion @ClaudeP just a little humour, all good
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Reminds me again … my tt waits for aro and umami … how is its signature?
It’s very musical, refined, dynamic and open. I don’t hear any colouration. If you’ve heard the Hana ML (my previous cartridge) you’ll know the sound. The Umami offers more of it.
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The Arkiv did well and was still sounding ok the tip looked good but the suspension rubber had gone harder so time for a change 
I got 250 hours out of it so well pleased
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