What cartridges would best sound an Ekos arm?

Dear Sprog: I own and owned a lot of LOMC cartridges and I had at least three times for a while the A-90 in my system as many other times that I heard almost all the MC cartridges out there in different system.

The LOMC cartridge alternative is just that " an alternative " a very good indeed but in the other side exist and is alive the MM/MI cartridge alternative that's through my experiences with in the last 4-5years and in the experiences of many other Agon people tell us that it is a very good alternative too " surprisinly " good and with several advantages against the LOMC alternative.

Years ago I was sceptic/sceptical like you till I try, learn on the subject and found out that there is no single reason why " no body cares on the MM/MI alternative " but we all are victims of the " commercial corrupted " part of the AHEE.

Well if you want to test and know a little about the quality performance flavor of those MM/MI cartridges then this one can show you of what I'm talking about and till today what you are missing or not:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Nagatron-9600E-Induced-Magnet-Cartridge-NOS-/280595124062?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4154c5cf5e#ht_1386wt_1139

If you have time you can contact these Agon persons on the whole subject and ask what are their opinion on MM/MI cartridges like:

Technics EPC P100CMK4 or Empire D4000III or Audio Technica AT20SS or AT24/25:

http://forums.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vaslt&1205390334

http://forums.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vaslt&1121531113

and obviously you can read about on that very long thread and in my Agon official reviews:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1200430667&&&/Who-needs-a-MM-cartridge-type-when-we-ha

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr_memb.pl?0&1&listrevs&zzRauliruegas

there are many people that could give you their opinions as there are several MM/MI cartridges that performs at the nera, at the same level and even that outperform not only the A-90 but IMHO any LOMC cartridge out there.

Anyway as I told you the MM/MI is just another analog source alternative.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

What phono stage are you using Raul?

and more importantly, which table?

Good reply Misskuma, but in my experience a phono stage is the most important - assuming a decent high-end turntable (oh, endless discussions/battles maybe to come..!) is in place.

I'm assuming Raul has a good turntable Misskuma.

The phono stage is king to hear what's going on with a cartridge, if you already have at least a pretty damn good turntable and arm.

Raul - I'm assuming you do?

Dear Misskuma and Sprog: Here you can read about my audio system components:

http://forums.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vdone&1115433273

Regrads and enjoy the music,
Raul.