MC cartridge High output vs Low output


Looking for an advise. I always used MM cartridges with my Sansui AU717 integrated amp. It has a built in phono stage rated 2.5 mV/47kilohms. I'm considering a high output MC cartridge with 2-2.5 mV output. Most of the reviews of MC cartridges are about low output models. Would appreciate comments if someone tested and compared high and low output cartridges (assuming the same make and model). Trying to understand the actual impact of the heavier coil in a high output cartridge. Thanks!
discodrom
The fundamental concept behind them all is lower mass improves precision tracking. The magnets in a MM design are a lot more massive than high output MC, which are in turn more massive than low output MC. Some of these the mass is so low its literally only a half dozen turns of hair thin wire. The obvious tradeoff being that little wire can't possibly generate much current. So you give up a little tracking for greater output.

Its important to understand not only are these tradeoffs, but its just one of many factors in sound quality. In reality as John Donne said no man is an island. No one knows what a cartridge sounds like. We only know what they sound like playing a record on a tone arm, when run through a phono stage, amp, and speakers.

Your high output MC will work. Whether you prefer it or not only you can tell and only by trying.
High output versions will always sound worse than low output versions of the same model. 
The fundamental concept behind them all is lower mass improves precision tracking. The magnets in a MM design are a lot more massive than high output MC

MM cartridges are not the same, there are many amazing MM with extremely low effective mass such as Technics P100 mk4 or Audio-Technica AT-ML180 ... 


Thanks! Will read the reviews on these MMs. Before I started looking at MC models I was considering Ortofon 2M bronze or black.

Here we go again. Effective mass or tip mass or moving mass cannot be the whole story, because if it were then moving iron cartridges would sound the best. Moving iron cartridges not moving coil cartridges, have the lowest moving mass as a group. I agree with whoever it is that’said by and large low output versions of moving coil cartridges sound better than their high output version. Furthermore, I prefer the best moving magnet and moving iron cartridges over any high output moving coil cartridge that I have ever heard. There are several threads on this issue and all of us have said all of this before.
@discodrom If you are looking at the 2M Black, consider the Audio Technica VM750SH or VM760ML. Quieter in the groove than the Ortofon.
Audio Technica fan here too. Been using their MCs for years. Both the OC9 MKIIIs and the ART-9. Over-achievers for sure.

Frank