The sound is very nice, honest, linear, detailed, the stage is precise and quite deep.
some friends that have more experience than me told me: you won’t get it any better, even if you spend more money.
Actually you can and even for less money, but it's a personal preferences. Last night we have compared various LOMC cartridges with a friend. During the late night session the FR-7fz and Grado Signature XTZ were chosen. The Grado XTZ was the best Grado cartridge made by Joseph Grado himself, it's MI cartridge and even against the very expensive FR-7fz on FR-64fx tonearm i still love the Grado sound, it's warmer and full bodied. So i assume MI has it's own flavor compared to LOMC.
But there is one thing I wish for: that is a bit more colour, richness, the leading voice could have a little more vibrance and fealing.
I don’t need more detail but on the other hand I don’t want to loose detail or stage.
It is very personal and also depends on your phono stage, in my opinion the Gold Note PH-10 does not reproduce the bass correctly, it's clearly a lack of bass in my system with this phono stage compared to two other phono stages i have. I think you can look for the Grado XTZ, styli are still available. I can't say anything about Grados Statement 2 as i never tried it. But in my opinion anyone must check at least two types of cartridges (MI/MM versus LOMC).
