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
@atmasphere 
thanks for the advice.  Earlier I thought “atmasphere is lucky to have dodged this exercise”.  
@atmasphere  LOL, you are 100% correct. I too noticed that dear Raul didn't take it upon himself to consult with a tonearm manufacturer or turntable manufacturer....but that would risk him getting an opinion opposite to his!
@atmasphere

please post your favorite tonearms, except for Triplanar and SME
Dear @kennyc : Thank's for your interest on the set up.

Only for your records I knew about that 92 way before MF posted and I was in WBF way before you can imagine it.  As a fact MF already learned some alignment issues rigth from audiophiles.

Yes, to much fatigue and useless for me because unfortunatelly I don't learned yet nothing new for any of your tedious posts.

Enough.

R.


D. I just received from Ortofon and waiting from phono stage manufacturers, cable manufacturers, rack mount manufacturers, speakers manufacturers and even room conditioning manufacturers, etc, etc Do you agree with.? certainly the rookie agree.



R.