Hesitant to upgrade my phono cartridge

@paulgardner the 1st thing I'd check is the tracking force. Is it still correct? A good tracking force guage can be found on Amazon for around $35. The next is verifing VTA. Again the suspension can change over time and you might have to increase the arm, maybe not but again worth checking this out as well. Those 2 things should be fairly easy to do but remeber when you cahnge VTA you chnage VTF as well. Good luck

@paulgardner Your cart is signified by the SL and that seems to indicate Line Contact, if that be true you are at or nearing that carts usefulness, if it is an elliptical stylus it is way over it's intended use. WTS, if still useful I would take this as an opportunity to acquaint yourself with adjusting it out, and there are plenty here that will chime in on that who have the same cart and arm. as a quick check if you are comfortable raising the back of the arm in very small degrees to get the position of the styles/rake closer to spec to compensat for a relaxed suspension it might get you to a happy place for now.

@tooblue the SL stands for Shibata Low output. I have checked the tracking force. It’s at 2g, which it where the manufacture recommends. I can definitely raise the arm a tiny amount. I just might try that. Thanks. 

@paulgardner The SL stands for Shibata low output and you should have some life left to enjoy for a bit after you adjust 

The Hana SL is a Cart' that turned up with a bit of a euphoria attached to the model and it was finding recommendation from many corners. The euphoria was short lived, and my recollections are that many were abandoned with plenty of usage life remaining, to be replaced with the ML Model when it arrived on the Market, and others with plenty of usage life were swapped out for other Models from Brands once the betterment of the ML was being made known.

I am a SL owner, I stopped using it when the Cart' was thought to be run in, and prior to the ML becoming available.

The SL to me was a sensible route to getting LOMC replay for approx' £00.70p per Album Replay.

After a period of time, I thought of it as a Second Cartridge Only and removed it from regular use with approx' 200 hours of usage on it.

My experience is showing there are much better Cartridges out there that can deliver a very attractive presentation for reasonable monies.

I don't think the expense of an Umami Red is required.

If you could learn a little more about the Ortofon Cadenza Bronze, it shares the Trickle-Down Technology from the TOTR Ortofon Model the Windfeld.

This Bronze certainly is one that is reported to have a little detectable richness and might have the attributes that will give confidence there will be a compatibility with the Tweeter of your speaker. 

I know somebody who has the Bronze in use, as their choIce over the Blue and Black Cadenza Models on a DD TT, they claim it has detectable richness that is an antithesis to the sharpness of the DD TT. A Harmony has been discovered and this alone has served to be a real improvement to their previous listening experiences.