In article , Serge Auckland wrote:
My question is why Moving Coils should be thought to be better than moving
magnets. I can think of several reasons why they should be worse, lower
compliance and higher mass, but not why they should be better. Trackability
should be better on a MM, as should record wear due to lower tracking
weights.

When they first appeared on the market they could easily be made out to be
better just because they were different so that they would sell. There are
plenty of people prepared to assume anything new and different must be better.

But that was a whole generation ago, and even then most people had stopped
worrying about such controversies as acoustic versus electric pickups,
clockwork versus electric motors, or steel versus fibre needles. In the 21st
century there's no need to worry about moving coils, magnets, or anything
mechanical, because now we just have moving light beams, or solid state memory
with no moving parts at all.

Rod.