I've never run a Ortofon here but have heard plenty on a red at my brothers and no complaints. Different listening environment though.
I have been interested in the 30 as read it's a good step up from the 20 and after that I don;t know.
But the cart game has been fun and educational and expensive (cheap as possible anyway) and I'm going to sit on the Pickering's for awhile.
The needle takes a bit to burn in and I only run weight at 1.5g, brush off and 2 brush on. Pickering specs 0.75-1.5 on the XSV as it being high compliance.
Sometimes I turn it up to 1.8 when busy in the house during the day (slamming a door downstairs, washer on spin cycle, even strong storm winds will skip my needles here, not to mention foot-fall and bumps)
I'm not a huge fan of the brush, especially the thick bristled new ones (old brushes are like fine model brush fibers and do work to clean as I live in a very dusty and static area., And it does keep down the skips.... And skips scare me most for doing driver damage.,
Fortunately, the Dual and Technics engineers designed their tables for harsh physical environments like mine. Thankful for that. Other tables absolutely will not work where I live.
What cart would need 2-3g? Pickering? Stanton? there's gotta be a thousand of either out there.