Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone.

Peter, this has become a wide ranging question and answer process so I hope you will field another;
You build and sell some very expensive and complicated cartridge designs and yet your phono stage designs are relatively simple and inexpensive. Can you explain why? My guess would be that at the end of the day, you don’t have the resources to compete with the manufacturers of top-tier phono stages but maybe your answer is totally different.
Also, and I must confess to being a bit apprehensive about even bringing this up, but your remark;

Maybe some people have not looked hard at my last name. Ledermann. My parents were holocaust survivors.

confuses me. I am Jewish. I am 60. There is nothing in your name that would cause me for a second to suspect your parents were holocaust survivors. You have a German-sounding last name and your first name, I don’t need to tell you, is not one common to us Jews :-) Care to elaborate how or why your parents were gathered up to the camps and how you ended up with the name of Peter?
Also, a perhaps-amusing aside about Mr. Van den Hul. I met him at Axpona of 2019. I bought one of his Crimson Strads from one of his distributors and he signed my box and he happily posed for photos with me looking proud and happy to have one of his better cartridges. I was hanging around in the room he helped sponsor and sitting next to him and he looked at me at some point and asked "so what kind of name is Tallan?". I told him it was Russian (true) but I couldn’t help wondering what prompted his question.

I am Russian, never ever hear this name "Tallan" and never met anyone with this name in Russia.

Are you challenging me? Perhaps you are unaware that when immigrants with long names came through Ellis Island, the names were truncated and "Americanized" often not by the Federal officials as commonly believed but at the request of the immigrating family. 
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-did-ellis-island-officials-really-change-names-immigrants-180961544/
Regardless of how it came to be, one of my relatives did an exhaustive search and found that my family's original name was "Telushkin" and that we came from a village long ago decimated, the Village of Slutzk. 
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/slutsk/slu-xi.html
Anything else Chakster?

The Cohens or Kohens (pronounced "Co-Hayns") were the rabbis of the first and rebuilt Holy Temple. 
The Levis were the custodians. Back then being a custodian of the Temple was tantamount in status to being a doctor or lawyer. 
I am supposedly a Levi. 
I only ever aspired to pass a KGB test. It is all downhill from here. 

Back on point, Peter Lederman, you are a most fascinating man. I have three of your mid-tier cartridges. You called me once. I had a hum problem and I had sent an email inquiry. You were patient and kind on the phone. You talked me through the process of identifying and eliminating the hum problem. It did not help in my case until I got rid of my VPI deck. But it was a great lesson nonetheless.