Cartridge Opinions - Sorry


Yeah, another dumb "what's your opinion on these cartridges" thread. Back in the late 80's we had dealers where you could listen to the stuff.

So anyhow I have a Linn LP12 with Ittok arm and a 30 year old Audioquest B200L cartridge. I'm running it through the phono stage of a Jeff Rowland Coherence One into a Spectral DMA90 through a set of Kef R300's.

I prefer a little more laid back sound (err on the side of forgiving instead of fatiguing) but I like a lot of upper end detail, precise soundstaging, air, etc.

So far I'm considering an Ortofon Quintet S Black, Hana SL or a Benz wood - something at or below the $1k level.

I'd love to hear any opinions, suggestions, and experiences with those cartridges or others in the price range. I could possibly go higher if there is something out there that really shines for less than $1,500.

Thanks.


klooker
That's not accurate Raul, angry is not the word of how I felt, more like "surprised" and "attacked for no obvious reason", if your opinion to my post was purely technical fine, you obviously have a lot of experience, I am here to learn not to argue with people.But instead your opinion and reply about a post non directly related to you was with these words "I was even more stupid than (somebody else)"The original post was removed because I reported you to the moderatorsBut I can't be angry to people that just do online rantingNow, why you reacted to my harmless post validating someone else's I can just think for some reason it bothers you when someone validates @atmasphere points of view, he could be wrong or he could be right as far as I know but from a user like you I would expect more civility.So yes you are correct you stated your opinion but you are leaving out the part where you name people stupid just because.

And Raul if you are "admitting" that wasn't the intention I understand so no worriesYou have a good day
Dear @luisma31 : well " angry " was my thougth not that you told me, sorry for this.

R.
@tyray. You wrote this in your post:" I have a question for you. And this is not for arguments sake. I’m just curious.

When a blank piece of vinyl is cut at the factory, in your opinion which is more important. The cartridge/stylus making the grooves or the tone arm?"

Given your last post to me it is clear that what I suspected was true. You had no intention of being non argumentative and that post was ’BS’, the exact opposite was correct given your follow up post. Additionally, as Ralph pointed out to you it is a lacquer that is cut at the factory not a ’blank piece of vinyl’. You didn’t like my reply, and now you think you can come here and try and belittle my question to you...which still stands...how is your question relevant?
I have a great suggestion to you in the meantime, please put me on your ignore list, as I am doing for you. Have a nice day.
With your rig, I would stay away from anything with a Shibata or microline stylus.  They require spot on alignment and longer (lower tracking error) arms.  The Hana 'E' (for elliptical) H (High Output) is a screaming deal.  Forgiving stylus profile, high output eliminates MC preamp or transformer and additional cable complexity. At $475, you still get the MC goodness and detail that, as good as they are, an Ortofon 2M Bronze or Black can't quite deliver.