Dear Geoch: I like SAEC tonearms and the 308 model is very good.
The ultimate cartridge with this tonearm?, this is almost imposible that any one can tell you, at least I can't do it, because I did not try yet all the cartridges out there ( LOMC or MM/MIs. ) and certainly not with that specific model and in the other side that SAEC design come with removable headshell that give us several headshell options for we can mate a desired cartridge with.
In my SAECs the XV-1 performs really good and I can't see how the Goldfinger does not performs on that tonearm in great " shape ".
Now, if you don't care on cartridge design I could recommend
the Empire 4000DIII that you can see it on Agon's auctions or A Nagaoka MP-500.
The ULS-3X is a good SAEC ceramic headshell with 18grs. on weight, it is very nice but not for every cartridge, you need to make tests about.
You need too take advantage on the removable hedshell tonearm design trying cartridges with different weight and build material headshells where you find out with which headshell a cartridge performs at its best.
Sorry if I can't be more specific.
Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.
The ultimate cartridge with this tonearm?, this is almost imposible that any one can tell you, at least I can't do it, because I did not try yet all the cartridges out there ( LOMC or MM/MIs. ) and certainly not with that specific model and in the other side that SAEC design come with removable headshell that give us several headshell options for we can mate a desired cartridge with.
In my SAECs the XV-1 performs really good and I can't see how the Goldfinger does not performs on that tonearm in great " shape ".
Now, if you don't care on cartridge design I could recommend
the Empire 4000DIII that you can see it on Agon's auctions or A Nagaoka MP-500.
The ULS-3X is a good SAEC ceramic headshell with 18grs. on weight, it is very nice but not for every cartridge, you need to make tests about.
You need too take advantage on the removable hedshell tonearm design trying cartridges with different weight and build material headshells where you find out with which headshell a cartridge performs at its best.
Sorry if I can't be more specific.
Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.