Here is the most scientific test of that which I have seen!
Wow, buck 72 for a cartridge??? How can they make it so cheap?
That's a good bet on a lot of what we post here .Is this supposed to be comedy?
I would love to see a shoot out between a Technics SL-GAE1200 at US $4k vs a TAC DAS AirForce One at 75k in British Pounds.
http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/05/technics-sl-1200gae-is-for-audiophiles-not-djs/
http://www.hifinews.co.uk/news/article/techdas-air-force-one-pound;75000/19654
Their specs are hardly any better than my $700 1982 Yamaha PX-3. That is, what specs you can find.
Tell you what would be really neat, pointless, and likely have no market at all. Have a TT that takes in the signal from the cartridge via a good ADC. Have embedded in the platter points to be picked up by sensors. This gives nice read out on real time speed. Have software to vary the speed of playback digitally based upon this real-time speed sensing of the platter. You could end up quite a way towards speed stability of playing a CD. At least it should get much closer than PLL's or massive platters have managed. I suppose the old strobe setup with a light sensor for real time speed measurements might do well enough.