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Which headshell to use?
Surely the leds are important but silver or copper is a matter of taste. Also if your tonearm internal/external wires are copper what's the point to use silver led wires in headshell or vise-versa? If your cartridge coil is copper why you need sil... 
High end cartridge made in USA?
I believe oustanding Argent MC cartridges are all US made in the 80s, but they are very rare and hard to find nowadays. Argent made diamond, ruby and sapphire cantilever versions. The company also made acoustic room lens before they disappeared fr... 
Best Cartridge for technics sl1200mk2
I have these decks since 1998 and it was my dj set-up for ages. All cartidges i have tried in the beggining were total crap in terms of sound (but it was very long time ago).The best hi-end cartidges i have tried later and liked very much on this ... 
BEST TONEARM FOR HIGH COMPLIANCE MM
How about new Well Tempered Lab LTD MK2 tonearf with effective mass of 10g (for very high compliance cartridges) ? 
Stand out phono stages
Well, i'm not experienced with many phono stages, but for several years i use latest WLM PHONATA MC/MM with automatic impedance and two RIAA curves (one for vintage records and another for all others). The Phonata works very well between 25 till 1... 
Which headshell to use?
I also have lightweigh (silver) Orsonic headshell for my Denon DL-107 MM and it was ok. Later i tried Technics EPA-100 with stock headshell with my Zyx Airy 3 MC and it was ok too. But when i bought heavier Zyx Live 18 headshell for ZyX Airy i was... 
Are these guys crazy?
I have been shopped at Turntable Lab online 10 years ago, they are not new in business. I should have placed my orders over the phone to make it possible to ship to my area (Russia). I've bough some nice Funk & Soul records from them, great se...