Update.
I upgraded the cartridge a few years ago to a Grado Reference Platinum 1. This is a lovely sounding cartridge for the price and certainly light years in my opinion ahead of the less expensive Prestige Blue. Better deeper sounding bass and nice with voices and strings.
But while all frequencies were well represented, the Platinum suffered from some noticeable hum (as did the Blue). I was able to clean this up to an astonishing degree by installing a Shunyata Venom Defender in my simple Wiremold power strip (why/how?)
Another issue emerged when I started using the table with a subwoofer that extends below 10Hz. I started to get real rumble problems that were especially pronounced on some records. I attribute this to the Grado having too much compliance for the medium mass TP13a arm. Interestingly, replacing the Platinum with the Blue again in this set up reduced significantly the rumble problem, perhaps because it has less bass capability or is a better weight/compliance for the Thorens arm?
I started cartridge search and landed on Shelter 201 based on user comments/reviews. Even with only about 5 hours on, it is clear this is a better match zero hum, even with volume cranked up at the run out. Perhaps more importantly the Platinum rumble problem is solved so I'm thinking this is a much better compliance match.
Generally this is a very good cartridge, faster and not quite a sweet sounding as the Grado Platinum, but super quiet, good dynamics and drive, nice spatial resolution and bass (but school is out on the bass till I have more hours on the Shelter).
