What phono cartridge is suited for metal and heavy rock?

Regards, Alex-77:

Lots of good suggestions above.

Recently excavated from my pile of pickups, a rather primitive Shure M75ED body already mounted to an ADC 6gm magnesium headshell. Tags appear to be sturdy AT6101’s. No memory of where/when it was obtained. Absent the stylus so prowled the internet and landed on V-M Audio Enthusiasts, selected a Swiss EVG .3 x .7 nude elliptical, a very reasonable thirty dollars to revive the vintage cart.

Aligned to Stevenson, loaded it at 100k/200pF. 1.4gm downforce. First up, Kraftwerk "Autobahn". Driving bass, rich mids but the Hf’s a little on the etched side. It immediately put a smile on my face, even bringing life to Tulls’ rather wispy "Aqualung". I’ll play with loading in a bit.

Well aware of the distinction between enthusiast and audiophile level transducers, not a recommendation but rather a report. If Vivaldi is your cup ’o tea one might look elsewhere.

A voiceing from the past, on my EPA-250 TA this cartridge/stylus combination has a huge boogie factor.

Peace,

iv always found most metal music badly recorded.

It can be really hit or miss, even within a band’s catalog. It can also get expensive because even the ones that don’t sound great can go for a LOT of money, and you can’t trust the reviews on DiscOgs AT ALL. But there are a lot of really great sounding metal records out there, and even some spectacular ones.

From my own modest collection, the following are spectacular: Avantasia’s Metal Opera 1 & 2 and Wicked Symphony (Moonglow comes close), Iced Earth’s The Glorious Burden, Rage Soundchaser, Metallica "Black" 45 RPM box from 2008, Metallica Load OG, Helloween Keeper 1 & 2, most of Magnum’s catalog, Iron Maiden Brave New World, Blind Guardian Nightfall, Nightwish Decades box, the Edguy box, the Megadeth classics (RIP, Countdown), Van Canto Voices of Fire, Opeth Morningrise, a couple from Porcupine Trees, the first 3 OG’s from Cirith Ungol, Danzig...oh and Warrant Cherry Pie sounds ridiculously good but that’s more hard rock / hair metal. There’s loads out there worth chasing, and worth playing on a great hi-fi.

Dear @alex-77  : Any decent cartridge as the 1042 named here is well suited for any kind of MUSIC if the whole TT/Tonearm/cartridge set up is accurated and the TT is seated in a good plattform to avoid vibrations/resonances or at least puts at minimum.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,

R.

@mulveling - if you like 'Keeper of the 7 Keys, Part 1', you should definitely check out Helloween's new one that came out last year; probably their best album since that one, and they've gotten some older members back for it. If you like Porcupine Tree, their leader is Steven Wilson; he has some wonderful progressive solo albums, too...

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