Dear Markphd : Great post!!! There are almost nothing to add but this:
the MM cartridges are very sensitive to changes on capacitance and impedance load and the MC ones are a lot less prone to that electric effect.
almost all the MM cartridge are better trackers than the MC ones due in great part to its high compliance design against a low/medium MC cartridge compliance. In some ways this compliance characteristic makes a more easy choice of tonearm for the MM than for the MC cartridges.
usually the MC cartridge has an overshoot on the high frequency response range that can cause some kind of distortions in the other way: MM cartridge this overshoot does not exist and the frequency response is smother than the MC one.
I agree with Mark: there are several high quality sound reproduction MM cartridges, a few of them compete bis a bis with the best MC ones.
Now, for you can really get the best out of a MC cartridge you must have a very good Phonolinepreamp that btw are expensive units.
Btw, you can try the Sumiko Blackbird that is a high output MC cartridge and very good performer.
Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
the MM cartridges are very sensitive to changes on capacitance and impedance load and the MC ones are a lot less prone to that electric effect.
almost all the MM cartridge are better trackers than the MC ones due in great part to its high compliance design against a low/medium MC cartridge compliance. In some ways this compliance characteristic makes a more easy choice of tonearm for the MM than for the MC cartridges.
usually the MC cartridge has an overshoot on the high frequency response range that can cause some kind of distortions in the other way: MM cartridge this overshoot does not exist and the frequency response is smother than the MC one.
I agree with Mark: there are several high quality sound reproduction MM cartridges, a few of them compete bis a bis with the best MC ones.
Now, for you can really get the best out of a MC cartridge you must have a very good Phonolinepreamp that btw are expensive units.
Btw, you can try the Sumiko Blackbird that is a high output MC cartridge and very good performer.
Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.