I picked up a medium cage Saint 9sd shadow r.mech last week and what a revelation.
Yes it’s heaver and chunkier than the XT it replaced but by jebus does it shift with such a positive and reassuring click-clunk
Best thing I have bought in a long while.
Just thought I’d give an alternative perspective on this…
I’ve relegated my Saint M810 to the spares box and put the original SLX RD back on, as I just couldn’t get on with the thing. For ‘positive’ read ‘clunky’, and the thing seemed to be forever out of tune at one end of the cassette or ‘tother. I’m happy again now with the dainty and virtually imperceptible shifts of my SLX. Shame tho’ as the Saint RD got many an admiring glance, and made me look very gnarr!