Is going from a Ortofon Candenza Black to a Ortofon Winfield a lateral move?

Dear friends : As I stated and other gentlemans did it ( @billstevenson @edgewear ) the Windfeld came from 2008 with the Replicant 100 stylus shape:

https://www.ortofon.com/mc-windfeld-p-486-n-4873


and yes as edgewear posted the MC3000MK2 ( that I own. ) was the first cartridge with the Replicant 100.

Other advantage of the Windfeld over other Ortofon cartridges is that has a way high tracking abilities that permits it to pick-up more and with better quality recorded information in a good set up.


Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTION,
R.

Wow, ok - now im beat, in more than one way.

BTW, in Raul’s cartridge ratings I’d have given this one a kindly 60—61.
He never rated that one either. Why? 🤔

I’m still baffled why my Cadenza Black sounds ’more normal’ than this super duper original Peer Windfeld ever did?!?
I’d rate the CB at 63+.

Some MMs I'd rate this high too, with a slight edge for timbre presentation. 

So did I trade in a diamond (PW), for a more middling gem-stone (CB) ?

And what about similar findings like my own, posted on the web at the time?

Lastly why was it needed to upgrade this PW to a PW Ti, having A90, A95, Anna, etc. ?!? 🤔 This, if it is such a top performer?

It is hard to discard some year old long ongoing frustrations with such an item, I admit, as just a weird prejudice? 

The original PW is close to CB in weight (a little heavier I recall), same body construction, same tracking force (VTF), 'same' (±) output voltage - and as for tracking ability... I even had some issues with sibilants, some more than I've now with my CB...😏

Finally I've had listened to some better presentations of MCs in my system than my now Quintet S and Cadenza Black (Transfiguration Orpheus, and some better Lyras come to mind), yet the PW just was reticent to all tweaking and adjustments.

And didn’t I try! As I had a hard time to accept this to be the case, it remained sort of ’flat’ / somehow harmonically restricted.

So it’s good to know others had more luck than I had.

Water under the bridge, eh.
😝
Michélle 🇿🇦

Just added a Cadenza Black on my Feickert Woodpecker with a Kuzma Stogi 12 w VTA tower. Running it through an Icon Ps1 Mkii phono stage w 100 ohms and 72 db. Still fiddling w adjustments and some cable changes but I think it's going to be really nice.