Ron, you seem to be butting up against the old duality: Apollonian or Dionysian? Only the best, or sample lots of variety?
Even when I'm feeling Apollonian, I can make the argument that I can extend stylus life with other cartridges I have enjoyed, or at the least, play a new LP with a cartridge with a replaceable stylus rather than have to have an MC stylus torn off by a rotten disk.
Having a bunch of mono recordings, I wouldn't want to forego a mono cartridge (and the Ruby 3 conversion sounds so good I wonder sometimes if I, with one ear, ought not to use it for everything!) The rest is safety (as above) and variety. Even then, I sometimes wonder whether the London Reference of the Kontrapunkt C should go on the final spot: the Reference is so close to the LP-S, while the Ortofon is quite different. More of the 'best' or more variety? (This is not a problem, or if it is, it is a pleasurable one!)
Even when I'm feeling Apollonian, I can make the argument that I can extend stylus life with other cartridges I have enjoyed, or at the least, play a new LP with a cartridge with a replaceable stylus rather than have to have an MC stylus torn off by a rotten disk.
Having a bunch of mono recordings, I wouldn't want to forego a mono cartridge (and the Ruby 3 conversion sounds so good I wonder sometimes if I, with one ear, ought not to use it for everything!) The rest is safety (as above) and variety. Even then, I sometimes wonder whether the London Reference of the Kontrapunkt C should go on the final spot: the Reference is so close to the LP-S, while the Ortofon is quite different. More of the 'best' or more variety? (This is not a problem, or if it is, it is a pleasurable one!)