Good cartridge match for SME R3012 tone arm?

Pani:

I read that the Bronze piece added a dry nature to the sound.

At the time I was considering adding it to a 3012R, but ended up selling the arm and staying with my older 3009 non-improved.

This said, I could never hear a difference between the older metal knife edge and the later plastic knife edge models.

Dekay, are you talking about the Bronze bearing or Bronze base plate ?

Pani:

The knife bearing.

Don't recall a base plate being mentioned, though just looked @ the site and checked it out.

I've never listened to any of the parts upgrades, just mentioning what seemed to be a believable review @ the time (which was years ago) and hoping to get more feedback from users.