High end cartridge made in USA?

Ortofon invented the moving coil cartridge, but Grado invented and patented the *stereo* moving coil cartridge. Similarly, Beyer Dynamic invented headphones, but Koss invented stereo headphones. Columbia invented the LP; RCA invented the stereo LP.

Although Grado does not make MC carts, they *do* make very high quality low output moving iron cartridges in their wood bodied Statement series. In America, New York City, in fact.

Reviewers generally considered the Grado Statement series to be overachievers, so I'm betting their top line $3500 Statement Statement is a seriously good cartridge, and although moving iron, has only 0.5mV output. The coils have fewer windings to lower inductance and internal resistance (2 ohms).

"02-21-15: Onhwy61
The OP implies that the only high end worthy cartridges are moving coils, which is false. Grado makes several high end cartridges that are not moving coil designs."

It looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the binding posts today. Where is this implication you're talking about?

What about DV? I have a DV phono pre and that is made in New Zealand.

Yeah, very low output MI designed for MC phono stage - very interesting., Same with Soundsmith Sussurro Paua with output of 0.3 mV
I'm curious how those low output MI sound with MC phono stages.

As opposite to this Some people use high output MC with MM preamps but when i tried it with my Argent MC500HS i didn't like it at all (it lost all the magic). It's much better with MC stage.

Where is/was Stanton made?
I wonder why the domestic production is so important in this truly small market. Yes indeed Grado is made in Brooklyn NYC.