Cartridges that get strings right?

nandric

It's is not the cartridge nor AC power but speakers.

It's all of the above, and more. It's the system.

It's all of the above, and more. It's the system.

Wot he said.

It’s also the microphone and the recording studio and the way in which the musical signal was transferred to a piece of vinyl.

@pingvin

Enjoying the responses which have devolved into the catchall "Everything matters!" ?  Ha. Of course this categorical answer is correct and could be used to reply to 99% of the questions posed on here, but it does little to help you in trying to capture a certain sonic attribute by tweaking the cartridge part of the "Everything Matters" equation.  In a perfect world we could go through every aspect of your system from AC power to how clean your records are to see which impacts the realism you seek from strings but that's not viable of course.    Instead of providing anecdotal findings on cartridges that have worked well for others, you get "schooled" on why you're not even approaching the issue correctly.  Oh well.