Whats the most one would shelve out on a cartridge

[Oddball]

just to confuse matters further,i tried a eroica and thought it was nothing special,the denon 103sa on the other hand is so musical in comparison.

I thought you'd tried erotica for a moment there , Jamie !!

I have a second hand £90 cart on a £60 turntable and I dont intend to pay much more

[AJSki2fly]

I have a Michell Cusis cartridge, purchased when I was building my system up cost £1100, its effectively a BENZ MICRO GLIDER S MOVING COIL CARTRIDGE with a different body built by Benz Micro for Michell. A bit of a one off. I have compared it to the Ortofon Blue Rondo, I still have from my last TT, in the Michell Gyrodec/SME IV arm and there is a difference. The Cusis has more detail and better definition. I think the Ortofon was original about a £600 cartridge.

Is the extra £500 difference in cost worth it, I would say yes, would I go to more than around £1000 probably not. I doubt my ears are up to detecting the subtle difference a £2000 cartridge might bring. The other thing is that would a better cartridge highlight the inadequacies of some of my second hand LP purchases, possibly.

I think that a £600-1000 spend on a good cartridge is worth it, but as already said it needs to be put in a reasonable good arm to gain the benefit.

[Barry]

Yeah but, it's not really a 38 quid turntable. A TD124/2 is a grand of anyone's money these days, and probably cheap at that.

That was my point about mixing recently purchased components with those bought years ago (46 years to be precise). If, as you say, one would have to pay £1,000 today for the TT, then it would seem that I have apportioned roughly equal amount to cartridge, arm and turntable; in line with my opinion that one ought to spend a similar amount on each part of the audio chain.

[Vrajbasi]

I have a Michell Cusis cartridge, purchased when I was building my system up cost £1100, its effectively a BENZ MICRO GLIDER S MOVING COIL CARTRIDGE with a different body built by Benz Micro for Michell. A bit of a one off. I have compared it to the Ortofon Blue Rondo, I still have from my last TT, in the Michell Gyrodec/SME IV arm and there is a difference. The Cusis has more detail and better definition. I think the Ortofon was original about a £600 cartridge.

Is the extra £500 difference in cost worth it, I would say yes, would I go to more than around £1000 probably not. I doubt my ears are up to detecting the subtle difference a £2000 cartridge might bring. The other thing is that would a better cartridge highlight the inadequacies of some of my second hand LP purchases, possibly.

I think that a £600-1000 spend on a good cartridge is worth it, but as already said it needs to be put in a reasonable good arm to gain the benefit.

I dont think Michell really sold those so quite rare, wonder how you got one of those?, I know a friend who purchased a new orbe and techno arm they refused to sell him the cartridge. You would here a difference with any cartridge £2000, 10k or £500 all have a flavour whether you prefer one or another is a different story.

[RobbieGong]

....rare NOS Kontrapunkt C and best offer too
Bet this"ll be a great cart https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m...2F202417321973

[moffer]

£400 is my absolute max. Recently bought my third Hana EH for £30+ less than the going price of £384. My previous two Hana's were also acquired for well under the RRP at that time.