It's generally cheaper and definitely less hassle than making your own cartridge from a headshell and a stylus package, it doesn't rip your records up when you cue and scratch, it's got a good signal strength at 6 mV, it tracks well even on a warped record and it sounds good enough to play with live. It's not a hi-fi cartridge, but odds are there's more distortion elsewhere in your system that you won't hear the difference anyway. There's not much here not to like.
