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Assumptions? I call it free form avoidance of thought, a much more prestigious label.

one of the reasons I went with ortofon was the brand was mentioned as having top of the industry quality control during a YouTube roundtable discussion about record mastering, if I recall correctly.

I don't need that luck of the draw stuff, and have read enough over the years to know quality control is not the greatest with cartridges, although that is essentially what one is paying for.

I really don't have the experience to discern much about a faulty cartridge beyond the obvious, nor would I want any.

I do agree without any reservations, , that the consumer must check this stuff carefully.

I'm not that happy to be replacing an old v15 shure, I really sounded great. But it did get so old that I was having to send to Japan to replace the stylus , and although they worked well, it was only an approximation of the OEM part. Then once the cartridge got destroyed , that settled everything.

I had been considering a cartridge upgrade for some time, I consider it the voice of the system , right up there with speakers. although a moving magnet works perfectly well with my rock centric record collection, so old that most of it was probably mastered with a MM in the production chain, I was open to change.

I had a lot of big expensive dreams while forming a buying decision, and considered the ortofon 2Mblack as probably the most direct replacement for the old shure, probably a lateral move.

When I finally pulled the trigger, I reluctantly put my dreams aside, knowing spending money on the arm would serve me better than a multi thousand dollar cartridge of my dreams.

while Kicking around the ortofon website, one of the suggested matches for my Michell techno arm "A" was the 2M black, so I decided to face reality , waited for a Black Friday sale , and bought the Ludwig von Beethoven version for just under a thousand dollars.

although I primarily listen to rock and other simple groove material, like jazz, I voice my system for classical and let the rock take care of itself.


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