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In Reply to: RE: MM cartridge closest to sound and tracking of a Denon DL301MKII posted by Lew on September 28, 2015 at 11:45:14
No it's still available from online dealers. I'm mostly curious to get some thoughts on MMs that have a similar sound or "voicing." I don't think it's necessarily an MC thing. The only MC I've owned is an AT-OC9MLII, which sounded very much like the AT150MLX MM I had about 7 years ago. both my ATs were brighter than I liked, with a metallic sort of quality to the highs that I found fatiguing (even after I tweaked the loading resistance and capacitance in the case of the 150MLX). All three Ortofons I've owned (OM20, 2M Bronze, 2M Black) seemed a bit brash in one way or another and none of them tracked sibilants as well as the Denon To be fair, when I owned the OM20, I wasn't meticulous about alignment and only used that dinky cardboard protractor that comes with Pro-Ject turntables and doesn't seem to match any alignment known to mankind!
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Garvin....if the Ortofon Black didn't track well, you set it up wrong...or have it in a poor arm. I know the Black and although it has some faults, poor tracking isn't one of them.
I've no experience with those particular Ortofon models, but the ones I have heard in my own system (MC7500 and MC2000) tend to be quite neutral, not at all "brash". The Nagaoka mentioned by daleda does indeed get a lot of favorable mention. Don't know whether it sounds like your Denon, but by all accounts it sounds "good". In guessing what low cost MM might sound like your Denon, I also think of certain Grado models or even a low cost SoundSmith MI type, which might in fact be superior. My own bias is that both LOMCs and MMs are preferable to an HOMC, as a class, but that's just me.
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