Not much talk about Yamaha turntables.

BTW I have a nice vintage Yamaha belt-drive TT in a wood plinth in my collection. 

FWIW, the story behind the name "GT2000" is that Toyota had then recently introduced their top of the line sportscar (which is now a VERY valuable collector item), which they called the "2000GT", because it had a 2-liter motor and was a GT car (2 seats meant for rapid touring).  Yamaha just turned it around to get GT2000, so to associate with the Toyota sports car.

wow, nice @lewm  

I know the OP is talking about "new" Yamaha TT but a lot of the conversation is about the vintage Yamaha TT from back in their "Glory" years.
I have a Yamaha linear tracker, the PX-3 that is an outstanding performer after a little maintenance work.
It included features such as a coreless motor that Technics finally turned to when designing the new series of SL-1200 TT, only took 35 years to catch up.
Micro Seiki did a lot of the component building on the older TOTL Yamaha TT as well. Micro wasn't known for being a leader in electronics but they could build mechanical components like tonearms and such better than most.
BillWojo

Alrighty then.  I'm gonna shoot for the Pioneer.  Now for the cartridge.  I see here that the Grado Prestige Black and the Nagaoka MP110 were recommended for this TT.  Can anyone describe the differences in these two or recommend another cartridge(s)?