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What are your favorite phono cartridges?

Just curious, what are your favorite cartridges that you now use, or have used in the past? Do you prefer moving coil or moving magnet, or some other design? Here lately I have been collecting older moving coils and have been nicely surprised! My favorite right now is the GAS Sleeping Beauty and the Shelter 501 II.
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ct0517
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1 MC and 1 MM that I am currently using and I consider them equal in audio nirvana value.
Benz Micro MC 3 - this is a SoundSmith Ruby retip.
Empire 4000 DIII Gold - thank you MM audiogon thread.
david12
1,454 posts
 
I think my favourite was the Koetsu Rosewood signature I used for 3 years. I had a second hand Onyx recently, but it was'nt a good compliance match with my arm. Now I use a Benz Micro LP, which is the second best cartridge I have used.
rahman
4 posts
 
EMT OFD25 for mono and Decca C4E for stereo (followed closely by TSD15-SFL and FR-7f).
tom_hankins
928 posts
 
Dynavector XV-1s
Koetsu Rosewood Signature Platinum
stevecham
3,340 posts
 
Lyra Argo i and Helikon i. Lyra is now by far my favorite cartridge company after having owned models by van den Hul, Benz Micro, Koetsu, Grado and Shelter. Their line contact styli track beautifully and get the information out of the groove.
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