Suggestions- High Performance TT/Arm- Rock Jazz,

Not that I have been around the vinyl block a million times but a SOTA with an SME arm with a Clear Audio cart was a great fit for rock music.........very pleasing!

Roksan TMS2 with Artemiz arm for less than 15K.

Chadnliz: Thanks for the comments. The SOTA COSMOS seems like a strong candidate. Curious about TERES 300 series, SME 20/2. Heard that SME is not great with rock music ??

I'm running teres 255 with triplanar mkvii and shelter 501,I play classic rock,jazz,vocals..all I can say is I'm very happy with the sound...I'm curious with all the feedback with this arm how a zyx cartridge would sound with my musical taste...YMMV

SOTA Cosmos or Millenia with OriginLive Reference arm and Sheter 90x cart. Takes you into the $15k range plus or minus but into the $25K + range on performance in my opinion. Teres 300 also very, very nice.

OK, you want Top Dog performance at beer-budget prices?! Try a rebuilt Lenco, if you've got the cojones ;-)! No tonearms are preferred over others, cartridges depend on tonearm. Nothing, and I mean nothing, will touch a properly set-up idler-wheel drive for rock and jazz. Or for classical. Or for folk. Or for country. I miss any? But if you want the Ultimate, then set up a VPI JMW tonearm - 10.5 or larger - on a Lenco with a Decca Super Gold or higher Decca. It'll blow the hair off your head. As to 95%, it'll be a surprise if something out there can manage 95% of the performance of said rebuilt Lenco/JMW/Decca, that's true ;-).