Dear @asquaretail: I think you own a tangential tonearm with your XV 1s and as I can read you are satisfied but want to have something better.
The 1t is the logic/natural growing up " road " but exist several alternatives of other top quality level performance cartridges.
My Sonic Labs is great design and the Colibri is a very well mature design. The Colibri makes somethings that no other cartridge can gives us.
Today many audiophiles just do not take in count perhaps because the Colibri is in the market by many years and VDH just did not designed a new model and why any well regarded designer decided not to improve its design, in this case the Colibri?, easy there is nothing to improve or to make it better performer.
Lyra Etna SL is other good alternative as can be the Ortofon Ana but if I'm was you I will go before other action for the Colibri in its lower output version if your phonolinepreamp can handle it.
Any top cartridge in the today manufacturer catalog performs with very high quality performance but exist no two cartridges coming from different designer that performs alike, all performs a " little " different and not necessary better than the other.
The main judge about will be you through your system/analog rig quality level and your skills and knowledge level to make the best cartridge set up you can.
Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.
The 1t is the logic/natural growing up " road " but exist several alternatives of other top quality level performance cartridges.
My Sonic Labs is great design and the Colibri is a very well mature design. The Colibri makes somethings that no other cartridge can gives us.
Today many audiophiles just do not take in count perhaps because the Colibri is in the market by many years and VDH just did not designed a new model and why any well regarded designer decided not to improve its design, in this case the Colibri?, easy there is nothing to improve or to make it better performer.
Lyra Etna SL is other good alternative as can be the Ortofon Ana but if I'm was you I will go before other action for the Colibri in its lower output version if your phonolinepreamp can handle it.
Any top cartridge in the today manufacturer catalog performs with very high quality performance but exist no two cartridges coming from different designer that performs alike, all performs a " little " different and not necessary better than the other.
The main judge about will be you through your system/analog rig quality level and your skills and knowledge level to make the best cartridge set up you can.
Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.