Garrott vs Soundsmith

Dear chakster, Reto may be ''modest'' according to his Russian
importer but his prices are certainly not. His cheapest MC was
Virus than Magic Diamond and Silver Spirit. Magic Dimond was
+/-$6000 and Silver Spirit  about $ 12 K. I see for the first time
in your Russian ''literature'' that he produced an MM cart. Nearly
$10000  for this 'Shake Streamer'' . ''Shocking Shake''  so to speak.
There are successors for Virus, Magic and Spirit for about twice 
their previous prices. But we are used to this ''phenomenon''. 
I am curious what our Dover can tell us. He is better equip  than
us for technical issues.

I see for the first time
in your Russian ''literature'' that he produced an MM cart. Nearly
$10000 for this 'Shake Streamer'' . ''Shocking Shake'' so to speak.

This is probably because of the Garrott Brothers background. 

I highly recommend to the OP to buy Garrott P77i for $450  

I thought that Excel from Japan makes motor for current Garrot brothers cartridge. Maybe my memories are wrong as I have very minor background in MM.
I mean that Excel even sells something like this branded as Vessel
https://www.lpgear.com/category/THEVESSELC.html?CatListingOffset=0&Offset=0&Per_Page=12&Sort_By=disp_order

Chakster, I liked the stories behind MicroMagic/Bluelectric (I still can read Russian) - but at the very end it’s bionic Denon DL103 with super advanced diamond which is far more better than VDH or Replicant 100.

@bukanova that’s cool, glad you can read Russian, i can’t read Lithuanian :)

Mr. Andreoli story is very interesting, but he’s not Garrott even if he learned from them. His cartridges are not affordable for "normal people". But i really like his attitude, there are a lot of crazy stories in that two articles about him (in a good way).

Regarding Garrott P77 inspiration you have to look for British A&R P77 series (P, C, E). This is not exactly Garrott and it was explained before. Garrott D77 Dynamic Coil MM is heavy modified version by Brothers in Australia. 

Now when you mentioned Excel Sound i found this article and for the first time i see that A&R (Arcam, UK) is Japanese made cartridge.

Still no evidence it was made by Excel Sound, i wish to know.
Thanks