What Cart. for a Infinity Black widow

Hi. The name is Dave Pogue, but that was taken here at Audiogon, so I'm stuck with initials. Haven't you changed the frame of reference here. Rwwear? I thought the comparison was simply between a new top-line Shure (which you called "mechanical") and an old Carnegie. And the original thread, way back when, was to help a guy choose a cart for his Black Widow. Certainly there are better carts out there, but for this particular application, I still think the Shure, for $200, has a hell of a lot to offer.

I agree that the Stanton is a fine choice but don't agree that it smokes the Shure V15XMR (I have both) which you can buy for $199 incl. shipping from Jake's Music Factory in San Luis Obispo. But either one should work great in your Black Widow. The Grado is more iffy. I have the Reference and, IMO, it needs a higher-mass arm. Good luck.

Whoops. That's Jack's Music Factory, not Jake's.

Johnnantais, you could well be right. I've been using the Grado Reference/Reference (love their nomenclature) in a JMW l0.5 arm -- often a recommended pairing -- and experiencing both poor warp tracking and the dreaded Grado wobble. Worse, the Grado was soundly defeated, soundwise, in this setup by the Shure V15xMR, which surprised the hell out of me.

Rwwear, believe it. If a Shure V15xMR sounds "mechanical" in your system, I wouldn't blame the cart.