Cartridge recommendations

There's a Shelter Mk iii on ebay right now, $795. One year old.

Maybe a Denon DL-301 would be a closer sound to the Shelter than the 103.

It's pretty funny when people suggest something they have probably never owned based on review online @sunnyjim 

DL-103 has conical tip, people love it or hate it, to my ears conical tip is the worst ever and it will be the worst choice for people who love extended and detailed sounds. Reviewers will tell you the conical Ortofon SPU is very musical cartridge, but in reality (at least for me, in tube high efficiency system) it is dull and uninvolving with lack of details on both ends. This is total oldschool. It is in the same caregory as cheaper DL-103. So many cartridges does it much better and so many vintage MM carts sounds incredibly good for the same price as conical DL-103 or elliptical 103R. People invest in mods of 103, but for the cost of this mods they could buy much better cartridges without any mods required. I just don't understand it. Denon S1 or DL1000 were the best Denon cartridges this company ever made, not the 103 or 301 series. 

To Chakster:  I did not ask my question to be insulted as indicated by your opening remark to my query  

Don't show off your knowledge of a product at my expense or  any another members of this site. It is bad manners and discourteous......Sunnyjim

@sunnyjim i’m not trying to insulting you or anyboby else on this forum (never), but if you leave a comment or advice something, trying to be helpful, please refer to your own experience with certain cartridges, not to the reviwers experience (who’s often got paid for review somehow). Before you will teach me good manners, It will be much more helpful to share your personal experience, don’t you think so? That’s why people ask questions here, including myself.

Apart from the stylus tip, The 103r model has different coil wire compared to 103, i hope you got the answer to your own question.

Nagaoka’s top of the line pm-50 (vintage model) and current pm-500 model are frequently mentioned in Raul’s post here (loads of personal experience), while the pm-150 is just an entry level model and can’t compete with Shelter 501 mk2 MC cartridge.