After heading the design team that produced some rather famous carts for several high end companies he went solo, starting his own company, ZYX.
Some 15 patents in cartridge design came handy, along with the support of Namiki who still provides some of the best, if not the best stylus tips. In fact, this is the story of my system and my personal choice in cartridges.
I tend to be a loyal customer and at the same time I love small gambles. Do you make acquisitions without demoing the product first? I trust some designers, they have a record of commitment to what they do, they have never failed me in the past so I give them credit for that, paying in advance and patiently waiting for my purchase to prove me right. Well, yes. This is a bit of a gamble, not high stakes poker but then again, not peanuts either.
The Lapis Lazulis stone was a bit too much for my scientific background, I moved in for the 4D. At the moment of purchase I had a fantastic sounding airy3 mounted on the Kuzma 4point. If you take a look at the specifications of the two cartridges you will realize that the differences are less than minimal, almost non-existent.
The previous generation had the same magnets and coils, same highly polished micro ridge diamond tip, same output and impedance, channel separation, tracking force and ability, identical specs throughout.
The new C cantilever is made of carbon fibre which rumour has it was swapped due to the lack of boron the market is running dry, more and more companies will have to find alternatives and soon. What else? Not much. You see where this is getting, right? Specs mean nothing, for reasons obscure to me not so obscure but anyway there is a clearly audible difference between ZYX models, no matter what the specs suggest.
On this occasion the Ultimate marks the latest generation of ZYX designs with the aforementioned carbon cantilever. I will cut some slack to Yoshi for the Ultimate denomination due the sound of the 4D, which is in one word — unbelievable — or ultimate. ZYX offers three choices of coil material, 6N copper, 5N silver or 24K gold and for both my carts I went for the copper version.
There is a thing about copper, I prefer it to silver in most cases, the sole exception being the internal wiring of my tube amps. ZYX also offers two choices of output, low 0. The low being exactly half the impedance of the high, meaning the exact same quality of coils used. Low output version sound better than the high output equivalents since there is less moving mass, the problem is that they require some serious amplification.
There is a catch here, ZYX measures output at 3. Still, a good phono stage or step up transformer is mandatory, same applies for cables. I use the ASR Basis exclusive phono stage, the one with the batteries. The cable connecting the tonearm to the ASR comes from Signal Projects, the Apollon model with industry-low resistance and inductance values.
At his level the cable choice is critical. In typical ZYX fashion the 4D came in a bamboo box with plexiglass cover, wrapped inside a silk cloth, nothing new here. The looks with the exception of the cantilever were identical to the old version. I even ordered the same extra weight to be attached on the top of the cartridge as all ZYX bodies are made from plexiglass, meaning they tip the scale at less than 5gr. My choice is the so called Tin Base which pushes the overall weight to 6.
I was starting to sweat. I was all in with this one and had nothing but a few outs, I mounted the cartridge and waited for the dealer to serve me. The tonearm was taking like forever to hit that first groove. I was sweating like a pig. The river was merciless though, same packaging, same looks and nothing to be particularly excited about.
The dealer, Hisayoshi Nakatsuka gave me nothing more than a seven and an ace, one of those hands I hate playing. I was trying to play cool but I had to rush to my well known LPs. No space for experiments here, no new and exciting, never heard before records; I needed the same old stuff that was imprinted in my memory since ages.
Where was that Liszt sonata on BIS? I get that sensation of having something truly special on my tonearm, there is the famous ZYX speed, probably the cleanest and deepest bass I can think of. The BIS recording with Dag Achatz playing that glorious Bosendorfer piano is a landmark in terms of real life bottom extension and has been a personal favorite for years, toping even my Clifford Curzon original Decca pressing both in terms of clarity and sheer scale.
I remember describing the ZYX Airy 3 as a machine gun for how fast the playback was, and the 4D was at least on par. I could not accept loosing even one per cent of that glorious ZYX speed, I want my analog front end to be blazing fast. There was more, there was a newfound sense of bloom in the piano strokes. My hand was looking better and better after the flop. A second seven was on the table. View schedules, routes, timetables, and find out how long does it take to get to Zyx gym in Yelahanka in real time.
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