"Fleetie" wrote in message

The stylus on a MC does I suspect have less mass to move.

--
Nick

I always kind of assumed that was the reason. But I
don't know enough about such things to be sure.

Why not ask Ortofon or one of the still-extant cartrige
manufacturers?

AFAIK Ortofon primarily sells MM cartridges.

Compare

http://www.ortofon.com/html/body_mag...nical_data.asp

to

http://www.ortofon.com/html/body_mov...nical_data.asp


Even Ortofon's own technical data favors their MM cartridges