I bought a used original Eroica for a few hundred and wasn’t expecting much. It was the go-to affordable cartridge in the 90s. It’s so much better than it has any right to be at that price. I could live with it. It does lack some textural detail and inner resolution, but these are errors of omission that you only notice after listening to the cartridge for many hours.
I decided to buy their flagship, the Ethos. I was curious about what a value-oriented company can do when it pulls out all the stops. It retails for $1,600 but I found a new one for under a grand in Greece, so I have to wait a couple weeks for the shipping. I’m excited. The reviews are inconsistent in their description of the sound but consistently favorable. It sounds like a giant killer at best and a triumph of value at worst. Also, it looks really cool in my opinion.