That's okay! You didn't know. It's just a matter of using it and knowing.
I can think of 4 phono stages that don't do it justice and 4 that do just from years of hearing it in friends systems. It is, after all, one of the all time "affordable" cartridges out there.
Heavens forbid my early days of Sumiko blue points, etc. I feel sorry for these people that see the brightly colored ads for those Ortofons and think they're musical. Egads! Makes me shiver to think of it.