Quote Originally Posted by O'Shag
a Dynavector Karat 17D2 moving coil. It cost me around $850.00, which is a lot compared to the Stanton. But it destroyed the Stanton 881-s in terms of performance - Night and day difference.
I would certainly hope so! The 881-S cost only a fraction of the Dynavector's price, plus it doesn't need a step-up transformer.

While Walter Stanton and his "yes-men" cronies always maintained that NO moving coil cartridge could ever be any good (this is for real, folks!), I never ascribed to that belief. What I did believe however, was that many of the Stanton and/or Pickering models were a lot better than a lot of people had any idea they actually were.

The Collector's Series CS-100 which I'm still using sounds absolutely marvelous, and in a recent A/B I did between it and the Shure V/15Vmxr, the CS-100 ran rings all around the Shure, in every way imaginable. A fun comparison for sure (or, more accurately, for "certain"), but I suspect an A/B between it and the Dynavector would provide precisely the opposite results. But the Stanton/Shure comp was an apples-to-apples comp, pricewise. A Stanton/Dynavector would be a mushroom/truffle comparison instead.