shure m91ed. new old stock

[DSJR]

Makes me wonder if it was "just" the tip profile in all this?

[Reffc]

Makes me wonder if it was "just" the tip profile in all this?

Pretty sure that was the only difference. Stylus profiles can make a very significant difference to detail and tracking. The other thing I'm very mindful of when comparing cartridges is that the comparison becomes less meaningful if they are auditioned on different decks/tonearms/phonostages. Shure's cartridges of the 1970's and 1980's don't have a track record of being hard or thin sounding, quite the opposite I think is true, and whilst I'm not a huge fan of the 95ED, it'd not hugely different to the 91ED, differences IMHO are by degrees. The 95 I think had a little more detail and wasn't as rich sounding. It lost a little of the "lushness" of earlier versions like the 75 and 91. Bear in mind that it uses a similar, if not the same generator assembly as the V15 and was the closest of the Shures to the V15. Superior IMHO to the M97 which replaced the V15.