Kiseki
Purple Heart NS
Introduced 2012$3,199 MSRP
The Purple Heart NS is a moving-coil cartridge from Kiseki, a small Japanese cartridge brand with a cult following that was relaunched in "New Style" (NS) form after a period of dormancy, sold in limited numbers through a narrow network of specialist analog dealers.
MSRP
$3,199
Used market · Good
$2,225
-30% vs MSRP
as of Sep 1, 2026MSRP to used market
From $3,199 at launch to $2,225 today.
Specifications
- Price
- $3,199 (sale), $3,499.99 (regular)
- Weight
- 7 g
- Stylus type
- Nude line-contact diamond, mirror polished, 4 × 120 µm tip radius
- Output voltage
- 0.48 mV at 5 cm/s
- Dynamic compliance
- 16 µm/mN
- Internal impedance
- 42 Ω
- Cantilever material
- Solid boron rod, 0.3 mm diameter
- Recommended tracking force
- 2.0–2.6 g; optimum 2.4 g
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