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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Dear Lew, I am not sure what you mean with 'vintage'?
There was some panic in our forum when this Phase Tech
got the first price in Japan and some other awards. The
panic was by some Koetsu and other expensive carts
owners who could not believe the awards because of the price.
But it was not a good combo with my Triplanar but well with
my Reed 2A, 12'' and 27 gr. eff. mass. As you, I hope, know
the Miyaby Standard (American version) won and is now in
my Reed 2A. That is why I listed the cart on the German ebay.
In the German Magazine LP this cart is one of their reference
carts. I learned some stuff from the investors
but, alas, to late for my shares. It is called 'spread the
risk' so i listed some of my stuff on ebay.de; ebay.com;
ebay.uk and our own A'gon market. Besides I like to have
as many currency as possible on my paypal account. Paypal
has also its own exchange rates. Don't check them if you want to stay calm.

Regards,
Te Kaitora Rua and Karat are two Dynavectors about which I have always been curious.

Dover, what do you mean "out of the closet"? Because I listed my Urushi and the MC7500 as among my favorites? I never made a secret of my liking for the Urushi, even on the MM thread, and I think I mentioned the MC7500 a few times over the 4 years of the thread. Anyway, I think Raul hit the nail on the head; we like best the one(s) we own. I have no doubt there are better MCs than those two. I just need to own them.
Of 20 vintage MM/MI and several mid-line LOMC:

Acutex M320III STR
Grace F9 w/Soundsmith Ruby OCL stylus
Stanton 981LZS
Astatic MF-100
Lewm/Raul - if you check my standouts I dont own any of them. I do agree with Skos1 and Raul's MM opening comments - it is a matching game. For me for example Koetsu Onyx Gold vdh with Sumiko The Arm, EMT vdh with Breuer, Decca London Maroon Garrots with Zeta.
Lewm - you implied in the MM thread that you never could get a good sound out of the Koetsu, so I was a bit surprised.
Raul - what are your 4 reference cartridges ? It would be useful to know when reading your views on the rest.