Cartridges that get strings right?

Dear @br3098  : Did you try the Colibri or the A90/95 ?, all LOMC cartridges that are really the only cartridges ( LOMC ) that can reproduce " stings rigth ".

I heard the GM MK2 and the London Reference but unfortunatelly not in my system. I don't like the SPU line reproduced sound signature but the Royal is different.

R.

Dear @atmasphere  : """  Any cartridges that are notably good performers? ""  that's the OP question and I can't read nothing about in your post.

Btw, It does not matters all what you posted about cartridge/tonearm combination ( that all audiophiles know its importance. Only rookies are ignorant about. ) the cartridge self tracking abilities is the must important issue.

We can have a near " perfect " cartridge combination with a resonance frequency at 8hz-9hz but says almost nothing if that cartridge was designed with 6cu on compliance, it will be a very bad tracker and that " string rigth "  never will show up. I said " strings rigth " but could be any other performance characteristic. What if that 6cu additional comes with conical stylus shape instead VDH or Shibata one?
A cartridge is a whole unit and as its tracking abilities is important are other important characteristics as  motor design or suspension and quality level excecution of that design.

Everything the same : cartridge abilities is the name of the game.

""" Once the signal is properly tracked, you have to get it to the preamp where it gets properly amplified and equalized .  """

curios but instead to talk about that " amplified and equalized " subjects you gone for a way less important " road ":

""  The inductance and capacitance conspire to throw things out of whack: they create an electrical resonance  """.


@daveyf   """  Many phono stages are not that compatible or resolving enough ...."""

well neither people touched the amplifier resolution or cable resolution or several other links in the " prolific " audio system chain.


The best linephonostage/cables/amplifiers/ speakers/TT/tonearm can only reproduce ( always with degradation of the signal that pass through each link. ) what the cartridge pick-up.


The star in an analog room/audio system is the cartridge it self ( other than the LP. ) and all the other links in the audio system chain work as slaves of that cartridge.
Yes important slaves, but that's all. 

R.

Dear friends: All of us know that every link in the room/system chain is important.

Each of those links makes its own room/system degradation at different levels and something that we can’t avoid. The best we can do is to put at " minimum ". This " minimum " is really elusive trget to achieve it because all links inter-relationship in between.

Now, transducers links are the ones that degrades in higher way the reproduced signal.
So, cartridge and room/speakers are the must critical links in the whole chain. Both links at both room/system extremes.

The source of the signal ( other than the LP or CD. ) is the cartridge and has ( for me. ) the main responsability for what we are hearing because any recorded signal information that’s losted down there we just never will recover it.

In other degree the room/speakers link has another main responsability and we have to take good care here because is where the signal can suffer more degradation.

We can have very good speakers but if our cartridge has poor tracking abilities we can’t have the resolution need it to really have that " strings rigth ".

Unfortunatelly that links interrelationship makes that everything depends on each one link quality level. Of course that two other links are each one of us MUSIC/sound knowledge levels and money we have for the audio system. So there are several limitations every where.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

Dear @pigvin : Get it right for whom?. You can be sure that almost each audiophile has his own " get it rigth " in almost any udio subject.

Yes, like you as we attend more and more often to MUSIC live events s we will know better about that " get it rigth ".

Of course tht everything is important in the room/system but the room/system only can reproduce what the cartridge pick-up or what the lasser pick up in a CDP.

So I agree with @frogman : cartridge tracking abilities is the main issue along the cartridge quality motor levels and agree with him too that van den Hul cartridges like the Colibri ( low output. ) is really good in any sense and a precise answer to your question.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.