This is an old post, but I thought I’d post my MM experience here. In the past three months I bought two MM cartridges, after reading among things the very long MM post here on Audiogon. I first received an Nagaoka MP-500. It was a revelation. It gave a very compelling presentation, different but not inferior to my regular LOMC. Then I found through a Japanese seller a used AT-170ml ofc stylus in a AT-180ml ofc body. I have read on Audiogon that the AT-180 ml is not compatible with lower range styli. But apparently it can be. The sound quality is very rewarding, The sound stage width and depth, the level of detail, and especially the ‘musicality’ of this cartridge is very bit as ‘valid’ as my $5000 LOMC.
I now get what the MM perspective has to offer.