Best MM for the money or?


Are there any MM cartridges out there that rival the elite MC cartridges? I have in storage a VTL Ultimate with a MC stage but with my Monster Genesis 2000 cartridge(.02mv) I can only take the volume up to 12 o'clock before the back round noise is noticable. Should i go to maybe a .o4mv cartridge,would that solve the problem? Or should I just go to a MM cartridge and be happy with that. The VTL is magical with the CD stage which is why I never sold it and it meshes well with the Manley Tube amps I have in storage too.
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Showing 1 response by rlwainwright

I have been quite satisfied with the sound from my 2 B&O MM carts, 1 is an MMC2 and the other an MMC1. The MMC1 was hand-calibrated and tested at the factory. The response graph enclosed with the cartridge is the flattest I have ever seen, +- 0.1db from 20Hz - 20KHz

I won it in a sales contest back when I was selling a lot of B&O gear. They let me pick thru 30 carts to find the best one - it is phenomenal. Cost me $0 back then, they go for ~$800 now...Sounds really good on my B&O 9000 tangential tracking turntable.

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