Benz Micro H2 or Grado???

Ok, granted I haven't heard the most expensive offerings from Grado. I will concede to you on this one. That is excellent news indeed if they are as good as you say, I should make it a point to investigate in the future.

Oz

You may also want to consider the Cartridge Man's Music Maker MK3. It is a rebuilt tweaked high output MM in the body of a Grado and is extremely nice sounding for right around a $1000 new.

The owner of Audiofeil who sells the Music Maker on this site uses it on his VPI Aries2, and I going to assume he is using a JMW arm with it.

Might want to contact him to get his thoughts on the combo.

Thanks for all your posts!!! I went with the Benz and got it mounted yeterday.....

HOLY CRAP is this thing good!!!

Right out of the box the Benz made my system sound exponentially better.

Erik

Glad that you like it! I'll surmise that if you are this happy with the Benz H2, then you could be happier with the Benz L2 as the lower total weight of the L2 makes it a better tracker & more transparent. However, in your case you'd have to spend more money to use a L2 & that might not make you happy! (The CAT SL1 will not work very well w/o a step-up xformer for the L2. My experience! I lived with the L2 w/o a step-up for a few weeks. With step-up is better).
Someday, if you plan to spend $300 you could get the excellent K&K Audio (Lundahl xformer-based) step-up & exchange the H2 for a L2.