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


or what are the other TTs that give it a run for that kind of money?  Rega Planar 6 with an Anya MC?
I haven't heard the Ultradeck, but a lot of reviewers speak highly of it. 
(Even though there was a thread on Steve Hoffman about an effective mass of the tonearm listed at 35G, and how this would essentially limit the choice of compatible cartridges in the future... a little over my head).
Waiting to make a leap of quality from my heavily modded RP1 with too many miles...
manlio24
I emailed MoFi regarding the tonearm. Here was the response:

The UltraDeck Tonearm Effective Mass is  25.14g. We have mounted many cartridges from Ortofon, Grado, Hana, Audio Technica, Denon, and others that work great with both of our turntables. You want to avoid any cartridges that are specified as high compliance but the majority of today’s cartridges are either medium or low compliance and will work great with your turntable.

 

The compliance of our cartridges at 100Hz is available;

Studio Tracker

 Static compliance : 35 x 10e-6/dyne

 Dynamic compliance : 8 x 10e-6/dyne


Ultra Tracker

  Static compliance : 35 x 10e-6/dyne

  Dynamic compliance : 10 x 10e-6/dyne

Master Tracker

  Static compliance : 40 x 10e-6/dyne

  Dynamic compliance : 10 x 10e-6/dyne


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.
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