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Tonearm for Cartridge Upgrade Path

Hi. Can you suggest some tonearms that would fluidly accommodate this particular upgrade path for cartridges?

Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood MM -> Denon or Zu DL103 -> Miyabi 47, Koetsu Rosewood, or Shelter 90X

I was thinking about Origin Live models or SMEs. But please feel free to suggest other models I should look into. Thank you.
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I have a wood bodied 103R currently in a Premier FT-3 on a Gyrodec.

I frankly don't see the need to go beyond the wood bodied 103R; my educated guess is that the Miyabi/Koetsu/Shelter upgrade path would be a heavy situation of the law of diminishing returns.

My tonearm upgrade when I do it will be to one of the following:

Used SME 309, used SME IV, or Thomas Schick with the IV and the Schick being the primary candidates and the 309 being a "settle for" option.
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