"MC cartridges offer a level of performance that is definitively superior to MM cartridges but at 4 to 5 times the expense." This is pure BS and also bad thinking. Are you prepared to say that ALL MC cartridges outperform ALL MM cartridges? If not, you said it anyway. All the rest of what you say that follows that unsupportable generalization is as unsupportable as your opening salvo. Nandric, where are you now that we need you?
You're welcome to your opinion, of course.