At the moment i'm the majority of the way to upgrading my Rega Planar 3, i've done all sorts of stuff with the platters, plinth, motor etc. my final upgrade is the arm and i've settled on an Audiomods series 5 as it seems to be the obvious choice for the deck, thing is i've completely forgotten about the cartridge.
At the moment i'm using an Ortofon VMS30 Mk2 and to be honest i like it a lot, however if i have a gripe it's that it's pretty unforgiving with less than perfect vinyl which can obviously cause me problems when i'm buying 2nd hand. up until now if i was going to upgrade the cart i would have gone for the 2M Black, however i've heard it's also picks up every bit of surface noise too, so my question is, what should i be considering?