Just curious, why do you consider only two cartridges?
And as Orpheus10 said, you usually have to choose very much depending on what kind of music you mostly listen to.
For example, I too am thinking about new cartridge for my Spacedeck/Spacearm. Don't care much about Dyna 10x5 even for jazz/rock let alone vocals. 20X should be better but still essentially more of the same. It appears that unless you stay with MM you have to go over $1k to get a very well balanced MC, very possibly close to $2k.
Some people put MM on quite expensive tables/arms and I will probably do the same until(if) I am prepared to spend those $2k on cartridge.
And as Orpheus10 said, you usually have to choose very much depending on what kind of music you mostly listen to.
For example, I too am thinking about new cartridge for my Spacedeck/Spacearm. Don't care much about Dyna 10x5 even for jazz/rock let alone vocals. 20X should be better but still essentially more of the same. It appears that unless you stay with MM you have to go over $1k to get a very well balanced MC, very possibly close to $2k.
Some people put MM on quite expensive tables/arms and I will probably do the same until(if) I am prepared to spend those $2k on cartridge.