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MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
Dear @dogberry  I can live with the LP-S or London Decca but not the MP 500 that's a good cartridge but nothing more than that.   R.  
MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
Dear @soix ​@billstevenson  :  Both are rigth as is @knock1  ( please read wmy answer posted to him. The issue is only these:   How do you know a flugehorn kind of sound, or the kind of sound of a double bass or a piano instrument if you never ... 
MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
Dear @knock1 : " I always picked center of the main floor, the difference in just a few rows was really something. Therefore it comes a conundrum, how one is to know the "correct" sound of an orchestra, a band or an instrument itself?  "   We ca... 
MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
Dear @bdp24  : " Startling attack, immediacy, presence, full-bodied tonality, dynamics, and imaging.  "   I know very well wat you are talking about due that I not only listened to the London Decca but I owned two other cantileverless cartridge ... 
MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
Dear @jdougs  : Yes, to make this kind of comparisons I agree with you on the crucial importance of phono stage.   Now, your Umami Red is a LOMC cartridge that is a true challenge for LOMC cartridge in the over 10K price range, so you are in goo... 
MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
Dear @lewm  : " if you put a gun to my head, I’d say I prefer MI. " Well. I know which MI cartridges you own because I still own or owned for some years ( including MP500 that's moving permalloy. ) and well rigth now I have mounted two MM cartrid... 
MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
Dear @jhnnrrs  : So, your post means that that is your way of thinking as PM? I have to say that for years I had a suscription at IAR. I respect his opinion but that adjective he used could means several things and in reality for me it's not very ... 
MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
Dear @mke246  : Well, your kind of audio " fun " is a very specialized for say the least and I could think that almost no one out there " lives " as you. Anyway, is interesting that you experienced lower distortion levels in the SG design and eve... 
MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
Dear @dogberry  : Yes in audio and specially in the analog alternative always exist trade-offs.   You said you are very happy with your MI and that's good, I like MI too but everything the same ( pprice no object or mid price high end cartridges... 
MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY?
Dear @knock1  : " but the sonic differences were noticeable to me. "   against live MUSIC?  I ask because you posted  that's " a personal preference " and I not disagree with you but that preference is against live MUSIC' this is the issue.   ... 
Records not stored vertically for decades
Dear @soix  : Sorry but your thread has no sense to me.  Who cares what other gentlemans could think about when you have you are the LP owner and you can watch directly to see if are ok or not?   It could be better that you check 100 of those L... 
Buying Used Speakers
Dear @cubbiesman  : Buy a speakeofless than 5 years old has almost no risk from a wellknow seller/good feedback customers and like with new cars that after the first  year his price is 50% down the new price. With usedspeakers you can buy away be... 
darTZeel
Dear @rpmpam  : +1 mijostyn. or you can look Rockport that are very good too and mates very well with your Dartzeel amp:   Atria-II-RockportTechnologies-datasheet.pdf     R.        
darTZeel
@rpmpam   Which speakers are running with your Dartzeel amp?  
Do you think you need a subwoofer?
good.