Alternative names for "ZYX UNIverse" cartridge

Thanks, Doug. I searched for info on the 4D/Atmos and found your and Paul's review of same. You apparently hit the nail on the head, because all other reviews cited the same virtues and deficiencies, pretty much, for the 4D vs the UNI. I would consider the 4D, if it would give me some near equivalent of the UNI performance, to save money. But as you say, it's good but "different".

No one seems to have offered up the alternative name of the UNIverse as sold in Japan, assuming there is such.

I have regularly read that the 0.24mV SB copper wire version of the UNI is to be preferred. Any thoughts on the gold wire version? I had a Colibri with gold wiring; it did not knock my socks off.

Doug, the 4D's shape may have been different, but it still looks like a clear acrylic body like the UNIverse and Airy 3.

When I think different looking, I mean really different looking. Look at the Sumiko like, the Blackbird looks nothing like the Celebration, or the difference between the Dynavector XV-1s and a TE Kaitora Rua. These are radically different looking cartridges within the same line. The ZYX line, by comparison, has subtle differences visually.

What about the Omega? When I first saw it years ago, I thought the purple ball out front was the height of gimmickry. ("Lapus lazuli", indeed.) Since then I've heard the UNIverse and gained high respect for ZYX as a result.

I want to add a top flight LOMC to my cartridge repertoire, and I think I want it to be a ZYX, but after hearing so many superb and inexpensive vintage MM and MI cartrides in my system in recent years, I am the more reluctant to pay the ca $5K freight for a new UNI, or a "reconditioned" one from Sorasound.

Lewm You will not be making a mistake buying a UNIverse even though your wallet and collection of MM ,MI sez different.
On top you have an excellent phono section to help convince you made a very good decision and
I think Doug Deacon would agree with me on that.

the name is " Ayame " semi naked.

Cheers
Peter