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Re: Agree, I..

Posted by Damián (A) on October 30, 2004 at 20:15:39

In Reply to: Re: great for rock music. posted by ffrr on October 30, 2004 at 17:35:02:

I've got one with a generic stylus (couldn't get my hands on an original yet) and it's a nice sounding cart. I specially liked the bass it pumped out when playing a Rare Earth album- big, fat, round bottom, the kind that makes you nod in approval and say 'this is what bass should sound like'.

Having said that, I must admit it gets kind of lost in the cheap hazyness of my current 'table (my TD125 is 'retired' - it should be going in for service soon). I've also got an M75ED which does a lot better in this arm/table, but finding styli for it is almost impossible.

It seems to come forward a lot better than the M91ED, although it sounds rather compressed (not necessarily a bad thing, but it wouldn't represent, say, a full-scale orchestra accurately).

Another nice cart from the 'vintage Shure' series is the M55E.. you should be able to find vintage 40+ years old bodies in $5 junk turntables, and there's really no reason for them not to work. The stylus is still in production (.2 x .7 elliptical).

I used it for quite some time back when I still had the original Thorens arm on the 'table and it was a great match- big loose midrange, good highs and lows.

Still have a couple CDRs made with that 'table, and they sound gooood.

Give it a try, you might like it as well (it might be more of a vintage sound than the M91ED, but by no means less enjoyable).

BTW, thanks for posting on the original thread (I was the thread starter). Glad it made you dust off the M91ED, it's a tight little cart (I knew I wanted one since I heard a friend's Dual which came equipped with one, .. got mine on eBay for $5, still looking for a stylus). Isn't vinylphilia fun? ;-)

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