Good Matching Cartridge For Micro Seiki 505

Well I have the MA-505S and all the cartridges sampsa nominates are beauties....👍
As he rightly says....is this the world's only tonearm that allows VTF, VTA and antiskate all on-the-fly?
And just to make it perfect.....azimuth adjustment no matter what headshell you use.
Used to be my go-to arm for testing new cartridge acquisitions before I got the DV-507/II.
You'll find it hard to find a cartridge that doesn't work with this creation 😎

You'll find it hard to find a cartridge that doesn't work with this creation

SPU. Or at least the counterweight in mine wasn't able to balance it. I bought a bigger after-market counterweight on eBay though, so should be fine now. 😎

halcro

You'll find it hard to find a cartridge that doesn't work with this creation

There's no such thing as a universal pickup arm. An arm must be matched to a cartridge that's suitable to the arm's mass.  

There’s no such thing as a universal pickup arm. An arm must be matched to a cartridge that’s suitable to the arm’s mass.

A mid-mass arm like MA505 with a removable headshell is as close to a universal arm as you are going to get as the weight can be tailored to a great degree by changing the headshell. (Some other arms allow changing the entire arm wand, like my AC3000/4000.)

Ignoring my own comment above for the moment, here are examples of people on this same forum claiming the MA505 sounds great with a high-compliance Empire and a low-compliance Koetsu:

http://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/review-empire-scientific-co-4000diii-cartridge (in_shore’s comment)

http://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/micro-seiki-ma-505-arm-how-good-is-it

There's no such thing as a universal pickup arm. An arm must be matched to a cartridge that's suitable to the arm's mass.

You're welcome to live your audio life by this spurious maxim but I would have missed out on dozens of glorious arm/cartridge combinations had I not discovered the error of this 'myth' 😎