Anyone here have experience with the Denon DP-35F?

It's a matter of personal taste, some cartridges are just better than others, some are unknown, some are too old, some are new. If your price is just about $300 then Stanton 881 or Pickeing XSV/3000 are just great and better than others in my opinion, personally I prefer higher models like Stanton CS-100 WOS or Pickering XSV/5000 or XLZ/7500, but they are much more expensive! 

I could recommend Garrott p77i again, I use earlier version (p77). 
But converting AU$ to US$ it's still $530  

I read about the 95 series and per reviews figured I would probably prefer the cheaper elliptical version (EN?).

This said, I have not used any of the AT's in my setup.

I also culled almost all of my classical LP's in favor of listening to Vienna Master Series CD's, so listen mainly to popular music on LP.

DeKay

I'm not familiar with the Vienna Master Series. Are those the go-to CDs for a quality performance with excellent recording? I've recently started exploring classical again (or "classical", since I've been listening to later composers like Satie, Orff, Debussy and Stravinsky as opposed to my earlier Haydn, Beethoven and Chopin), but aside from streaming the stuff over Youtube I haven't been able to decide on what prerecorded material to invest in.   

Here’s the dirty low down on VMS (Pilz Music Group/PMG)...

https://www.discogs.com/label/276057-Vienna-Master-Series

This said, I like the performances and the sound quality.

I purchased a large (new 100+) set @ a flea market for $20 around 2001, or so, which is how I discovered them.

Don’t mind flipping a record when listening to popular music, but prefer the play length of CD with Classical.

Per a few friends who are classical buffs I like tone poems (which explains why my favorite Who album is Quadrophenia-:)

DeKay

Well, this doesn't bode well:

This series includes a substantial number of fraudulently described recordings, based exclusively on the catalog sold by the fraudster Alfred Scholz. Although fraudulently described as "digitally recorded" DDD, virtually all of the recordings are old analogue recordings made before the first digital recordings were made. Many of the releases are credited to the semi-fake Süddeutsche Philharmonie, the Philharmonia Slavonica, the fake Camerata Roman, and the fake Caspar da Salo Quartet. The names of real orchestras, like the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Festival Orchestra and the Ljubljana Radio Symphony have been falsely used on recordings not made by these orchestras. Fake/fictitious conductors include: Alberto Lizzio, Henry Adolph, Carlo Pantelli, Sven Bengtson, Vladimir Petroschoff, Loic Bertrand, Eugen Duvier, Peter Sternand others.

Did you send me the wrong link?