Jmcgrogan2, unless you are fixated at the particular models you have mentioned, check out the Audio Technica ART9. It is their reference model. In my system it bested some of the best cartridges out there, especially the Miyabi 47, Miyabi Standard, Lyra Skala, Benz Ebony TR to name a few. This I am saying with first hand experience with long term listening to each in my own system using Platine Nouvelle Verdier turntable and a variety of tonearms. I was using the Vector 4 also for some time. The ART9 combines the best of all the cartridges beats all of them in one area, i.e musical flow/PRAT (as some would call it). It is extremely neutral in the best of the sense, very open and very dynamic (both macro and micro). It costs lesser than the bronze but what it does the bronze can only dream of.
If you check out my threads here at Audiogon and at Pinkfishmedia, you will realize I have been hunting around cartridges for the last 3 years. With ART9 I feel elated because I know, I not only have a cart that I dont have to upgrade from but also after this cart has worn off I will buy another one.
If you check out my threads here at Audiogon and at Pinkfishmedia, you will realize I have been hunting around cartridges for the last 3 years. With ART9 I feel elated because I know, I not only have a cart that I dont have to upgrade from but also after this cart has worn off I will buy another one.