Showdown: Your Favorite Cart for Classical?

Dear Caspermao: IMHO all the cartridges you named and almost all the top " name " cartridges other people posted about are different in sound presentation but all of them are very good quality performers.

If any of those top cartridges is matched in the right tonearm/Phonolinepreamp ( everything the same. ) then it will be your " answer ": any of them.
Now if some one think that some of those cartridges ( other than Koetsu's ) are better with some kind of music over other kind of music IMHO I think that that people have an audio problem somewhere in their system other than the cartridge itself.
Here I agree with Sringreen.

As you can read you can/could have so many answers like so many different people/system posted here.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear Paul: +++++ " Are you saying the other cartridges more consistent with different types of music? " +++++

Not more consistent but with a better ( top to bottom ) overall tonal balance specially at the frequency extremes range.

The Platinum ones are a lot better than the other Koetsu's in that regard. Now if you are hearing the Koetsu cartridges over time then your ears/mind are already " equalized " to that quality performance ( that is a good one ) and only through a " shoot-out " against other cartridges in your own audio system could explain what I'm saying about.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.