Hi everyone, I have a Denon DP-300F turntable. Unsure of the tonearm mass.
My budget is 150$, and I'm currently looking at the Denon DL-110 (leaning towards this one), Audio Technia AT 120E, Grado Red Prestige, Ortofon 2M Red, Sumiko Pearl, and others. I already tried the Shure M97XE a couple years ago, and felt that it was too dull.
Rather than using your cartridge as a tone control, why not seek out the one with the most accurate response characteristics? It's not as if the cartridge knows what kind of music it is playing...
For punk and emo, I find safety pins work really well. There just seems to be a mysterious synergy with the music. Perhaps it's because they're able to dig really deep into the record grooves to extract every last bit of tortured emotion...;o)
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