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I'm Patrick.
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I'm Nari.
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Location: Ferndown, Dorset, UK
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I'm Brook.
I wouldn't put a ceiling price on what I might pay for a cartridge, it depends on the rest of my system & what finances I have at the time I consider a new purchase. One of my turntables is a modified Lenco GL75 (which I have to move on but that is another story), & it was for purely old mono jazz records with a very modest AT-MONO 3/LP, & it made beautiful music. I then had an opportunity to upgrade to a almost brand new Lyra Helikon mono at a very good price, & it lifted the performance of the Lenco into another league, it really did. The new price of the cart was over 4 times what I paid for the Lenco, although I didn't pay that for it, yet the deck was capable enough to show clearly why the Lyra cost what it did.
I have bought a few lightly used cartridges in the £400/600 range & have done very well with them, other than being stung on a Benz Wood SL that had problems; the most I have paid for a new cart was around £1,000 for a Ortofon Rohmann, but if something special came along & I could afford it at the time I would buy it.
Perhaps the original question should have been 'what is the minimum outlay for a truly involving sound?'.
I can't think of an MM or high output MC I'd want to use full time. The DL-103 is great at the price, but doesn't really 'get there' for me.
At around £400, the Goldring Eroica LX is an MC I could live with, it's properly musical and vibrant. Great fun! Spending more buys more refinement and possibly greater transparency, but does it bring greater actual enjoyment?
I have more expensive MC's, but the Eroica puts a smile on my face each time I hear it.
My System
John Wood KT88 Amp.
Paradise Phono Stage
Sony TTS-8000 Turntable.
PMAT-1010 MK6 Tonearm.
Ortofon Cadenza Bronze
Sony X555ES Cd Player
Yamaha NS1000m Speakers
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i would say the arm and phono stage would be the most important items to get the best out of the cart. There is a limit where the turntable would make any difference, these turntables costing many thousands of pounds/dollars are just for those who can afford them, the mere mortals that have orgasms over them is just from their cost or looks and not because they could sound any better.
Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house
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System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.
Top Koetsu, maybe? There are one or two others around that price. You wouldn't need anything special; a quality deck, good tonearm to suit the cart. and a competent stage. After all, you're not going to put a stone-bodied K on a cheap Rega or Project, are you ? 'Orses for courses. A good record player etc. will also extract the best from the cheapest cart's too.