Recommendations for an MC cart on Audiogon

tochsii, the first cart I picked up was a Sumiko BB with 300hrs from a seller on Audiogon.  The actual price was pretty good, below the sellers asking price.  I liked that BB so much I ordered a brand new BB from a ebay seller located in Hong Kong ($888).  The sale was smooth and the cart was perfect.  Unfortunately the cantilever got damaged during my relocation.

I sent it off to have it repair but it didn't workout.  However the craftsman compted me with a new cart from his personal collection, which I paired with my Pro-Ject TT, awesome cart by the way.  Needles to say I sought another BB.  Now this cart had 10hrs when I got it from a seller on Audiogon for $500 (Perfect!!).   

From eBay I won a Benz Wood H ($350) and a Grado Reference Platinum ($75) both are in excellent condition.  I have also picked up items from US Audio Mart.  

My recommendation to you is too do your research on the seller (that includes ratings and communication) and to have a little faith.      

I have owned only one MC cart but it is superb and I can't recommend it highly enough in your price point.  The Dynevector 20X mine is a HO but I would get the more recent/current offerings.

@mechans How do you know "it's superb" if you only have had one MC cartridge and this particular MC is not even a low output ?  

We do believe that everything we're buying is superb until this opinion is crashed by something much much better, so comparison of the different cartridges is very important for analog lovers. Experience is the key. 

So the same reason i can blame professional reviewers, because they never even tried some rare vintage MM cartridges and always raving about inferior modern MC cartridges for some reason. But used market is an amazing option for us (buyers) to try whatever we want to try, sometimes it's time machine in action. I have no reason to stick to the modern production only, why should we ?   

Very well, if you really must have an MC, for that price range it´s possible to get one superb vintage MC but these are getting very rare. I once got Shinon Red LOMC w/ Micro Ridge stylus and boron cantilever for $600.
The Shinon that won one cartridge test and was raved by no other than 
Harry Pearson, The Absolute Sound: "Without having listened this (Red) one cannot say knowing the full glory of analog replay", on an advertisement in early 1990´s.
It really is that good.

Now is a great time to try MI as Soundsmith is having a great sale on cartridges to make room for it’s new line.