MM, MC, or MI cartridge

@rvpiano

So many opinions, aren’t you glad to have equally good and sometimes better digital system to fall back on while you contemplate where to spend your $$ either re-tipping the damaged cart or go for Hana ML 😊

BTW, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to keep an extra cart as a backup!

@zazouswing  : In the other side why if the high compliance MM cartridges can pick up more grooves information can't even the LOMC princple? easy different cartridge motors.

Some one named the Technics EPC 100C MK4 that I owned in its stand alone version and is a superb example of one of the best MM has for offer as could be the AKG P100LE on the MI side. 

But I'm talking here of vintage cartridges that if were under today production with today parts used for the top LOMC cartridges will be a true challenge to them.

I know that my next comments are not what the OP ask for but MM always was and is in clear disadvantage vs LOMC cartridges due that for around the last 40 years the audio phono stage electronics industry was in precise focus to gives the best designs for LOMC cartridges not for MM ones, so the MM PS were " living " in the mediocrity and for the big mass audiophiles. That's why my friend and I builded a first rate phonolinepreamp with a top MC design and a top separate MM design, but this is not the industry rule today.

Anyway, many subjects around that I think all of them were discussed in the big MM thread.

R.

@rvpiano The Virtuoso is a very good cartridge and worth repairing. Send it to Andy Kim. He does great work and turns Tibbs around quickly. http://www.phonocartridgeretipping.com/

lalitk,

You’re right, I am happy to fall back on my digital system. 
In some ways, I’m hoping that the new Hana ML cartridge will have some (but not all) the characteristics of digital. Will have to wait about a week for the new cart to find out.

@jasonbourne52 

@wolfie62 : a mono pole magnet does not exist! If you could invent one you could qualify for the Nobel Prize for Physics!

LOL!!!

Really? You are EXACTLY the type of person I was referring to! You don’t comprehend how MC/MI/MM cartridges work!

When you induce magnetic flux into a non-magnetic soft iron (Mumetal or other brands), you induce from only 1 permanent magnet pole. The entire armature takes on that one pole’s N or S polarity. It would be physically impossible to have both poles of magnetic flux. The armature is then an *extension* of the one magnetic pole. The armature in the coil pole gap has only 1 pole’s magnetic flux. A true MONOPOLE of magnetic flux! 
 

And BTW, a small, powerful rare earth magnet on a cantilever also has 2 magnetic poles in very close proximity to each other, and to the coil poles. Doesn’t happen in an MI armature!