The tange levin is meh, it's heavy and has normal bearings. I have one in service and it works but frankly it's just worse than a good cartridge bearing headset such as that stronglight (which I have on my rb-1) or the dura ace 7410 I have on my colnago. If you get a cartridge bearing headset you will never have to worry about pitted races, indexing, handling oddities due to wonky headsets... I believe VO sells a reasonably priced one that looks good but personally I'd hunt around for an older shimano unit. The King headsets are expensive because you're buying something that's made to last a lifetime, most c&v people aren't riding on frames expensive enough to warrant these though.