Dynavector 20X or Grado Sonata for VPI?

Just curious, why do you consider only two cartridges?
And as Orpheus10 said, you usually have to choose very much depending on what kind of music you mostly listen to.
For example, I too am thinking about new cartridge for my Spacedeck/Spacearm. Don't care much about Dyna 10x5 even for jazz/rock let alone vocals. 20X should be better but still essentially more of the same. It appears that unless you stay with MM you have to go over $1k to get a very well balanced MC, very possibly close to $2k.
Some people put MM on quite expensive tables/arms and I will probably do the same until(if) I am prepared to spend those $2k on cartridge.

An unbelievable story related to this subject. In 1960, I bought an album by a new female jazz vocalist. She was playing piano in a lounge, in order to earn money, to pay for her education as a classical pianist. The owner told her to sing, she protested, he said "Sing or get another job", she sang.

In the beginning, her albums featured 50% vocals and 50% instrumentals. That gal played jazz piano like I had never heard before. Most jazz pianists sound a little like the pianist before them who they admired the most. She was so unique that I place her in a class of one. When you combine classical, back in the woods spiritual, blues and jazz; you get a "gumbo" that cannot be duplicated, "she could bang".

Since singing paid the bills, her albums became exclusively vocal. Only jazz aficionados who are acutely aware of her "banging" piano have every note she played. For the unbelievable part of this story, which only occurred yesterday; go to positive feedback, The Grado reference and Platinum cartridges by Jeffrey Silverstein. While he's "right on" about the jazz vocalist, there are better cartridges for other types of music.

Got an amazing deal on a Dynavector 20XL so I grabbed it!