I had a Music Hall MMF 5.1 before this with a Goldring 1012GX MM cartridge. I had heard or read a while back on the differences between moving magnet and moving coil, that the coil weighs less than the magnet and therefore can reproduce the high notes better because it moves faster. After listening to this turntable for a week, I can concur. I'm hearing notes that I'd never heard before. The bass is no longer six feet back in the soundstage, it's upfront and powerful. It's funny when I first got into having a stereo system back in the early 70's, it was all very sort of ho hum. You put together your system and you bought albums and played them. It was all very simple. Sometimes you would take a record off the table and toss it on the bed, so you could play the next one. It's not like that now, hopefully we can instill this sense of pride in todays young audiophile.