MY SONIC LAB Cartridges

Dover, you twisted my words. Please re-read carefully what I wrote. “Quite the same” does not mean indistinguishable. No cartridge is perfect. And I might be deaf, but you have other disabilities associated with your character that seem to be equally incurable, eg, you are rude and not qualified for civil discourse on a forum such as this.

@dover this voicing to specific requirements for these brands is what I had suspected as well. Then again I seem to remember one poster here suggested that AirTight doesn’t even bother to offer their cartridges for sale in Japan and leaves the home market to MSL. This suggests that any sonic differences would be negligable.

I recently had a good deal on a dealer demo Accuphase AC-6, which is another variation on the MSL theme. It has the impedance of Hyper Eminent (1.8 ohm), combined with the boron cantilever and output level (0.4 mV) of Ultra Eminent. This might suggests that sonically it sits somewhere between those two, but having heard neither of the MSL’s this is just speculation.

I like to think the AC-6 combines the best of both ’worlds’. Just kiddin’ of course, but it’s definitely a highly ’neutral’ (or ’balanced’ if you prefer) cartridge with an incredibly dynamic presentation. They do sell the AC-6 in Japan, perhaps because Accuphase as a more mainstream brand has an attraction to ’one brand’ customers, unlike an amplifier specialist like Airtight.

"Dover, you twisted my words."

lewm,
let Dover win. He has a history of replying the way he does. You gotta wonder if that type of personality is the same face to face. If so, I feel sorry for them. 

Back to the thread TOPIC.

I went from a Lyra Titan i to a My Sonic Lab Gold Signature. I love it.

When I was researching, a friend pointed me to My Sonic. I had a discussion with a dealer of Lyra, MSL and Koetsu and he said on a spectrum you could generalize that Lyra was the more analytical to the Koetsu's more warm sound -- with the MSL in the middle. 

I've not heard a Koetsu cart. But, I would generally agree that the MY Sonic has more body and soul (to my ears) than the Lyra Titan i. Of course, that Titan is not the newer generation of the Lyra carts. Another audiophile, who set up my cart, said the MSL is one of the most "supple carts" he's ever heard. And he's heard A LOT of them.

Anyhow, that's what I know...and I'm super pleased with the MSL Gold Sig. Hope this helps.

@edgewear

At each pricepoint the differences are small, so if you get a deal on a particular brand you are getting value for money.

I like to think the AC-6 combines the best of both ’worlds’. Just kiddin’ of course, but it’s definitely a highly ’neutral’ (or ’balanced’ if you prefer) cartridge with an incredibly dynamic presentation. 

That describes MSL perfectly. From that description the AC-6 is closer to the original MSL than the Air Tight. I know one very high end TT manufacturer ( who hates direct drive ) whose reference is the MSL Platinum - the dynamics are why he uses it for personal listening.