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Suggestions for cartridge, just fancy a change of flavour

Present cartridge is Shelter 501 mk3
Mounted on Nottingham Analog Spacedeck with standard Spacearm
Going through Gold Note PH-10 phono
Into Lyngdorf 2170
Wilson Witt series speakers.

Again absolutely nothing wrong with the Shelter but it came with the TT and have never heard any other on this setup and would at least like to consider a change.

My vinyl collection consists of mostly rock recordings from 70,s and up.

Budget? $1500 to $2000, not adversed to low hour used.

And no I am not looking for suggestions to change the phono stage, arm, TT or anything else just other peoples actual cartridge experiences.

I would say I have about 250 hours on my Shelter and it came with the TT so unsure of TRUE full hours, I use Lyra fluid on it regular and vinyl is cleaned by US .
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rauliruegas
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Dear @chakster : As I told you don't have any idea. The Shelter 9000 is something that you have to listen and different to the OP 501.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.
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chakster
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Raul, I don’t care about Shelter 9000 or similar overpriced MC cartridges, i have owned some of the best of them (brand new). I found vintage MM from the 70s/80s highly competitive for much lower cost (with amazing sound quality)! I don’t care if you prefer digital to analog. Or MC to MM, only several years ago your own statement was against the MC or at least "a great alternative to MC". Now your statement is totally opposite. You’re looking for perfection and audiophile’s life is a constant search for something. But i prefer to stay on something good, i use both mc and mm, and i know which MM cartridges are superb and not so expensive compared to 3-4k Lomc. For the price of one Shelter averyone can try 3 different MM with the best specs, materials (cantilever, stylus, coil wire etc). So what?
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rauliruegas
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Dear @chakster : That listed 9000 in no way is overpriced and no not even five MM/MI can performs as the 9000.

Yes, years ago I started the MM/MI thread and yes I was exited and even J.Carr and I had some hot dialogues there because I told him the reasons of the MM/MI superiority ( what I experienced with. ) and one of those reasons was: lower distortion levels and he posted that LOMC cartridges has way lower distortions but I insisted to him that he was wrong.

Through the years I learned ( everyone has the rigth to learns. ) that J.Carr was in that special regards: spot on and in all what he shared with all of us.

Obviously you as any one of us have to learn of several audio subjects and cartridges is one of them as tonearms or tubes too.

So what?, so nothing . Name of the audio game always is knowledge/ignorance levels along each one habilities to learn and to have a positive/willing attitude to learn and don't stay sticky all the time.

Have fun.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.
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