Best mm cart for VPI scout/jmv-9 memorial arm

The Soundsmith VPI Zephyr is designed specifically for the VPI tonearms, but it's a moving iron cartridge.

Thanks, I was leaning towards a 2m Bronze and upgrade to the black at a later date.

I might eventually move to a moving coil but I have some other equipment I need to purchase. So it's a mm for me presently. But I will keep the Zephyr in mind when I'm ready.

Get yourself a Grado,as a matter of fact VPI use to sell the Sonata VPI version ! You can give them a call and ask them if they still do. BTW HW loves Grado's. MM and MI are very close in design, kind of a horse of a different color!

Sorry, I don't think that you read my response correctly.

The Zephyr is not a moving coil cartridge, it is a moving iron cartridge like a Grado. It has high output and is responsive to both changes in capacitance and resistance, just like a MM cartridge.

The only difference is that in a MM cartridge a small magnet at the end of the cantilever varies a voltage in a fixed coil, where as in a moving iron cartridge both coil and magnet are fixed and a small piece of iron on the end of the cantilever varies the voltage.