MM, MC, or MI cartridge

I don't think this piont has been made yet but there's also the consideration the stylus cannot be replaced on a MC cartridge.  Damage the stylus and you're buying a whole new cartridge.  I know it's only money..................🤣

OP asked about “sonics”.

@rvpiano

So many opinions, aren’t you glad to have equally good and sometimes better digital system to fall back on while you contemplate where to spend your $$ either re-tipping the damaged cart or go for Hana ML 😊

BTW, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to keep an extra cart as a backup!

@zazouswing  : In the other side why if the high compliance MM cartridges can pick up more grooves information can't even the LOMC princple? easy different cartridge motors.

Some one named the Technics EPC 100C MK4 that I owned in its stand alone version and is a superb example of one of the best MM has for offer as could be the AKG P100LE on the MI side. 

But I'm talking here of vintage cartridges that if were under today production with today parts used for the top LOMC cartridges will be a true challenge to them.

I know that my next comments are not what the OP ask for but MM always was and is in clear disadvantage vs LOMC cartridges due that for around the last 40 years the audio phono stage electronics industry was in precise focus to gives the best designs for LOMC cartridges not for MM ones, so the MM PS were " living " in the mediocrity and for the big mass audiophiles. That's why my friend and I builded a first rate phonolinepreamp with a top MC design and a top separate MM design, but this is not the industry rule today.

Anyway, many subjects around that I think all of them were discussed in the big MM thread.

R.

@rvpiano The Virtuoso is a very good cartridge and worth repairing. Send it to Andy Kim. He does great work and turns Tibbs around quickly. http://www.phonocartridgeretipping.com/