"Harder" cartridge recomendation

In defence of Dover I must confess to like his kind of humor. He should however, as is advisable reg. the Germans among us, say in advance that he is joking. If he wants to
stay out of trouble that is.

Halcro, I'll apologise, my 1st post could have been better phrased.
Yes, I do believe you are wrong if you prefer the coffee table in. In my experience large coffee tables in front of the listening chair generally "cut off" bottom end flow and air, literally truncate the bottom portion of the sound stage. Glass coffee tables tend to bounce high frequencies around and I always remove them. These are perhaps the some of the reasons why I gravitate to LOMC's, whilst you prefer MM's.

Nandric, thanks for the feedback. I do have German ancestry via Austria ( one of my forbears was given gold by the Habsburgs to travel the world to return a favour, he settled in New Zealand ) we may have a similar taste in humour.

Dover,
Apology accepted. Like Nandric I too often enjoy your humour and value most of your contributions.
I don't believe the glass table is accountable for my preference for MM cartridges?
I do think that I hear differently to most others.......and I am definitely in the minority with almost all of my peers in this preference so I have no problems in accepting that I am wrong.
I still can't listen seriously to digital and yet most (including Raul) either prefer it to analogue......or at least happily listen in equal measures?
This makes our hobby very hard to predict from an 'objective' point of view and making absolute judgments is fraught with danger?

Dover,
I feel you misunderstand the reasons for my preference for MMs over MCs?
I do not hear an abundance of high frequency exaggeration in MCs.
I have at least 3 or 4 MM cartridges which give a greater and more detailed extension into the upper frequencies than any LOMC cartridges I have heard in my system.
I also have an equal number of MM cartridges which can plumb the depths of bass with greater authority and better control than any of the LOMCs I have heard in my system.
There is one magical cartridge (the Professor knows it)......which performs both these feats (and more) at the same time!
Brightness has never been a problem in my system or listening room unless the pressing or cartridge presents as such.

Halcro, thank you. I dont think you are wrong. We all hear differently, and component choice is made in context of existing system/room/preferences.
Our systems may not be that far apart in reality. We agree on digital, I can only listen to simple music on digital.
I remember the story in TAS years ago. Some guy complained to the car manufacturer ( Buick or Pontiac from memory ) that his car didn't like chocolate ice cream, that it always broke down when he bought chocolate ice cream. Letter did the rounds at the office until one engineer decided that he would follow it up. The family had a weekly treat of taking the kids down to the store on a Saturday night and getting ice cream. Turned out that the chocolate ice cream was at the front of store, the other flavours were located at the rear. Whenever they bought chocolate ice cream, because of the short time frame in and out the car was getting vapour lock in the carburettor.