Cartridge Recommendations

The DaVinci Arm is very uncritical to cartridges. It works with nearly everything on a superior level. Choose what you want. One of the real advantages of the DaVinci is the ability to control even very critical carts (which move a lot of Energy into the Arm). A Lyra Titan i will tell you a lot of new "things" in that combination.

the Kondo IO-m is also a match winner with the Grandezza. you may look foward to its return...

Thanks all, appreciate it.

Dear Hatari: I heard on my system and other people systems all the cartridges name it here but the own DaVinci and the Silver Spirit and IMHO an " all around " great alternative is this one that not only competes at that high level but in many ways outperform some of those named models:

http://www.lpgear.com/product/BOMMC2.html

it has an additional advantage over those very fine LOMC cartridges: the cartridge signal has not to pass through your Kondo SUT. Less stages where the recording signal must pass IMHO means less distortions/colorations and means more MUSIC.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Hatari: You could take my B&O advise taking the alternative as a cartridge " spare alternative ", is so unexpensive that you could test it and enjoy it till the Kondo arrive and decide about the LOMC one. You have almost nothing to lose.

Btw, it is not only that the B&O has the advantage that its signal pass on the phono stage for less " stages " it is too that needing less gain means less/lower noise and distortions and you have two add two other factors: first is a lot better tracker that any LOMC I know and this means less and lower traking distortions. Second its B&O cares on its design, build quality and excecution of that cartridge design.

To be nearest to the recording with the MMC2 is certainly not at random, there are strong reasons on that subject.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.