Is the MoFI UltraDeck wit the MasterTracker cart the best TT solution @ $2,499?

There is no universe in which that tonearm has 35g effective mass - that would make it the same as known heavyweight Fidelity Research FR64S with its monstrous 20g stock headshell. I think you can safely consider that listing a misprint, and assume this arm will work with most cartridges on the high side of medium compliance (most MM, and higher compliance MC carts). 

@chakster
I agree those compliance numbers are very strange! Something seems fishy about it all; not sure I would trust any of those numbers. There is no reason for an MM to be that low in compliance. I’m sure it’s a nice sounding deck, but definitely I’m in the SOTA camp for value-for-money. And you advocate Technics decks which look very very nice, or other Japanese DD, I’d definitely choose that before an UltraDeck too.

Add me in with the SOTA guys, from the Sapphire model on up they are a phenomenal value - superb build quality and stunning sound quality for the money. Plus you can literally plop it anywhere and not worry about isolation or feedback issues. The new Jelcos look nice, too. You'll have to expand your 2500 budget, however (although used options can get your really close). 

I started with a SOTA Star in 2007 (it was a Series III from the 1980s, these things run forever) and that’s more than 50% of the reason why I’m a vinyl-first guy for life. Buy into quality up front, and continually thank yourself forever.

25g effective mass is more believable, but i still have a hard time believing that, just eyeballing this arm with its lean straight arm tube and affixed headshell. Are there lead rods in the thing? Lol. Or are they counting mass with the MasterTracker cartridge mounted?

Their dynamic compliance numbers are also really low, as mentioned before, and very far from the static numbers - which makes it seems likely they’re measuring dynamic at 100Hz like the Japanese, rather than 10Hz like everyone else.

Oh well, at this point I think you just have to take their general advice on cartridge matching.