Looking for opinions about Kiwame resistors.

[phylomatic]

I've seen some talk during the thousands of resistor forums I've looked through and I've seen Kiwame mentioned several times as being an extremely high quality carbon film resistor. I've googled it and seen plenty of opinions but did a search through these forums and noticed no one here has talked about it. I trust this forum more than any other and was wondering if anyone had any opinions about these resistors? Has anyone had any experience using them? I would also like to try some myself but can't seem to find a distributor (that I know). Does anyone recommend a distributer that they trust that actually carries these resistors?

Thanks guys!

[fyl]

I trust this forum more than any other and was wondering if anyone had any opinions about these resistors?

What about facts instead of opinions?

Kiwame is just another audiophile brand. Their resistors are OEM'ed from KOA Japan and are strictly identical to the KOA SPR2 (2-watt diss) and SPR5 (5-watt). They are distributed by KOA Speer in the US of A and available for pennies from industrial distribs such as Mouser.

http://www.koaproducts.com/pdf/spr.pdf (JP datasheet)
http://www.koaspeer.com/pdfs/res47.pdf (US datasheet)

Has anyone had any experience using them?

Yup. Excellent CF resistors.

[phylomatic]

Thanks! Once again, excellent help from the guys on this forum.