van den Hul Colibri, Koetsu Rosewood Signature, SoundSmith Sussurro Mk ii

After years of focusing on medium to high compliance MM and MI cartridges in various turntables, I’m finally looking to add my first serious MC cartridge.

Ortofon MC2000 could be your last LOMC if you have all those Moerch arm tubes, because it is a high compliance MC. But only if you can find a dedicated SUT or special current injection type phono stage (or very high gain phono stage).

Diamond cantilever Dynavector KARAT 17d2 mkII or higher in this series is also perfect choice! It does not require high mass tonearm.

P.S. For a very low compliance cartridges you really need another tonearm, with much higher effective mass.

I have an Ortofon Windfield and hundreds of records.  Never heard mistracking.  Not knocking P/L design....just sayin

I'm surprised nobody has mention Lyra cartridges.  The Delos and Kleos carts are quite good.  Not thin or too analytical like the early Lyra's, particularly the ones with the ceralloy cantilevers.  They are medium compliance carts that will work with your heavier arm tubes.  

Chakster is right. It will still play and probably sound  ok, but not it’s best with a light arm. I have had Denon 103’s and only got mediocre sound. Always wondered why all the hype. Similar compliance to Koetsu. When I got a 12” Ikeda (heavy arm) I finally heard the denon sound good. 

Ah yes, the 103.  Both it and its brother the 103R sounded suberb on the 11g Syrinx.

Sure, extreme mismatches are bad.  I wouldn't, for instance, stick a Koetsu on a Black Widow or a Grace 747.  Well, actually I would, but only out of curiosity and I wouldn't expect the combo to sound fabulously.  The DP6 with a yellow tube will likely be borderline and less than ideal, but with a blue tube I'd be happy to put 5 bucks on it sounding superb.

Short of serious or extreme mismatches I'm perfectly happy to maintain that bearing quality is the paramount determinant of whether or not the arm will handle a cartridge, followed by overall manufacturing quality and tolerances.

If those are all covered the arm will in all likelyhood handle cartridges well outside what's recommended by that table everyone's treating like holy scripture.  That has certainly been my consistent experience up until and including this very day.