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Yes Schubert, your choice of components matter a lot in regard to your chosen music genre. That's most important in regard to choice of cartridge; which is why I pay little attention to cartridge recommendations around here. When they say best cartridge, they mean the best cartridge for Rock, and not jazz, where you listen to soft spoken female vocalists more than banging guitars and loud drums, plus that, jazz guitar is so different from rock guitar.

What's best for one genre, is not necessarily best for another.

@uberwaltz , that your daugther likes analog or you like it or I like it is that the issue and means nothing on this dialogue.
You are talking of a different issue that me, so we can't agree not that I'm against what you posted.

Actually Raul, it is EXACTLY the point of this thread and means EVERYTHING in context.
Point of the thread was did the op think he could be happy with a vinyl setup on the budget side yes?
Answer is that it is most certainly possible to be happy with a budget vinyl setup as evinced by my daughters experience and mirrored by many more I am certain.
So while I would agree that I am talking of a different issue to you I would suggest that is is yourself who is talking of the incorrect issues that have nothing to with the original intent of the OP.
Peace.

Dear @uberwaltz : You are rigth and agree. The issue in prof, orpheus you and me dialogue is a little different and yes that dialogue in between is not exactly the OP but we have the opportuniy on the subject in between. Don't you think ? and I mean it when said: WE.

R.

Actually, I view all audio from a ratings point of view; what I'm speaking of is some kind of metric to judge the quality of components.

I spent two years visiting high end emporiums, and auditioning components, comparing them to how they were rated in "Stereophile"; meaning "A"; "B"; or "C". I read how a component was rated in the magazine, then went to the Emporium and asked to audition that component. Just as there are many flavors of ice cream, there are many flavors of sound; for example Conrad Johnson, and ARC are at opposite ends of the spectrum from warm to cool, but both have models that are rated Class "A".

Every building has a foundation that it sits on; that rating system is "Stereophile's" foundation, they don't play games with it, and I found it to be quite valid. There are many different flavors in each class, but I more or less agreed with "Stereophile's" ratings in regard to whether a component should be rated "A"; "B"; or "C".

I was not in analog at that time, but as I recall, no Emporium had expensive cartridges that you could evaluate, and you can reason why they didn't.