Need New MM Cartridge Recommendation

Dear friends: A gentleman here posted two statements that with all respect to him makes no sense to me and if he posted it maybe is because has very good reasons about, I hope he can chime on it. 
Here are those statements:


"""  forget those Dynas, Ortos and ATs, that's money waist.  """

money waist to whom and why?


"""  Cartridge should be good enough. but it is the least significant element in analog set-up. """"


well, other than the LP the cartridge is " the source " and the music information recorded in the LP grooves depends mainly in two cartridges characteristics: cartridge self tracking habilities ( to pick-up with precision the grooves LP modulations. ) and the cartridge quality design and execute of that design for the manufacturer.
That's why we have so many cartridge choices even that's the " least " significant link in the analog rig. Maybe the cartridge designers and audiophiles are " stupid/ignorants " and do not understand that gentleman's statement.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

MM cartridges for box speakers,

MC for panels.

Interesting thought, don_c55. I've been using an AT150MLX since 2008, but switched from curvilinear "box" speakers to panels (Maggie 1.7) in 2013. It still seemed like a good fit but I'm open to other options. I recently bent the cantilever on my AT150MLX and am using my backup, a now-discontinued Denon DL-160 HOMC. It's a pretty nice fit. It doesn't quite mine the detail of the AT, but it has a musically involving, full and rich presentation of its own that I kind of like. 

My current phono stage is a pretty nice (for me) PTP hand-wired all-tube unit with adjustable gain, but not enough for LOMCs. It does HOMCs very well, though. I was sort of thinking of an LpGear BIN 323 HOMC with nude line contact stylus.

Comments? Observations? Experiences you'd like to share?

Thanks in advance.

I went with the Ortofon 2m Black.  

I really wanted to try something different than the venerable Roksan Corus Black.  The cart was, as the Brits say, a "cracker." Sometimes I would just grin and laugh at how great it sounded.  

I really wanted to avoid going in to the moving coil world, just yet.  

I will post a follow-up when I receive it and get it set up properly.

Thanks all!  I'll be back by the weekend with a review.  

JB, Wait a week and play a lot of music before you post a review. Else you are likely to be taken by the different-ness of a new cartridge as much as by its intrinsic good or bad qualities. I also tend to trust Raul. If he says your Roksan is a "keeper", keep it, and maybe some day have it re-tipped. Everyone needs at least two cartridges. (I personally have never owned or heard a Roksan cartridge.)

FWIW, I strongly disagree with a few of the generalizations made here.  IMO, a good MM cartridge is good on any type of speaker, not just a "box" speaker.  Likewise for a good MC type.  Also, this is a weaker conviction, in my experience high output MC cartridges are as a rule not as good sounding as either the best MMs or the best LOMCs. I have heard a lot of well rated HOMCs in my system (Benz Glider, Transfiguration Esprit), but obviously not all.

"IMO, a good MM cartridge is good on any type of speaker, not just a "box" speaker. Likewise for a good MC type."

I thought that poster was just trying to be being funny.  If he was serious, that's just stupid.