Shure V15 Type III vs Grado Gold

To get the best from the Grado Gold .. you should buy the MintLP Best Tractor
I did on my Technics SL1210 MKII and really sounds great

I am a big fan of Shure. I have a III and a Ultra 500. I listen to a lot of jazz and for me their is no finer than a Pickering XVS 3000, 4000 or 5000. It is just explosive. AT 150MLX is a GREAT all round performer... Hard to find anything that it doesn't do right. I have never cared for Grado, any of them.

Norman

12-11-08: Normansizemore
AT 150MLX is a GREAT all round performer... Hard to find anything that it doesn't do right.

I've been taking my AT150MLX for granted so much I hadn't really noticed that. I have fairly eclectic tastes--Renaissance, choral, classical solo sonatas, chamber music, small orchestral Baroque, large-scale bombastic orchestral, acoustic pop and folk-tinged rock, classic rock, power pop, punk, new wave, country (e.g., Dwight Yoakam), bluegrass and acoustic country, small group jazz, big band jazz, vintage jazz, the great vocalists--Sinatra, Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, etc.

I hadn't really thought about it before your post, but the AT150MLX traces right through all of them and lets the music speak regardless of style, instruments, voices, ensemble size, or genre. In fact, it tracks so well that it significantly elevated my system to play larger scale music such as Holst's "The Planets" and big band jazz.