Cartridge for VPI Scoutmaster and Bottlehead gear.


I just purchased a VPI Scoutmaster with JMW 9 standard arm and am needing to get a cartridge. My current phone stage is the Seduction tube amp I built several months ago with the C4s upgrade. My amp will be the SEX amp which I plan on building this or next week. I am going to try two different pairs of speakers; the Soliloquys 5.0's and Paradigms Studio 60's v2. Bottlehead recommends high output cartridges with there preamp. From reading reviews, the Music Maker seems to correlate to my tastes, but it seems like that cart is an iffy with my arm. What are your suggestions? I listen to mostly New Age, Classical, instrumental, and early 60's and 70's music.
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I use a Shure V15VxMRon my HW-19 mkiv with jelco/audioquest arm and my Seduction. Cant speak to the JMW arm but the Shure and the Seduction go very well together.
The Shure and my Seduction are a sweet combo. A tad warm but full even range of tonality. The Seduction with my Grado Gold was nice, great for blues but with classical it was too much mid range and too warm.

A higher end grado may work for your JMW. Doesnt VPI sell a version?