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What are your favorite phono cartridges?

Just curious, what are your favorite cartridges that you now use, or have used in the past? Do you prefer moving coil or moving magnet, or some other design? Here lately I have been collecting older moving coils and have been nicely surprised! My favorite right now is the GAS Sleeping Beauty and the Shelter 501 II.
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- Fidelity Research 7 series
- Lyra Olympos SL
- Lyra Helikon Mono
- Takeda Miyabi Standard
- Zyx Universe
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The EMT-Ti is a modified EMT cartridge from Brinkmann. vdH also modified the EMT years ago and offered it.
It has an aluminum mount, a vdH Diamond, and a few material changes inside, also a screw for fine-tuning (for Brinkmann, not the regular user).
The EMT's were former Studio Systems, dirt cheap (use & throw away), now they are High End products :-)
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Koetsu Urushi..I have yet to hear ANY cartridge that has a clearly "better" capacity to reproduce the midrange frequencies,

That is simple. Look for a cartridge which has no high frequency area, a very limited low end and you have another midrange-pusher. A Linn LP12 is similar, btw.
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