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Shure V15VxMR Phono Cartridge

Nice review. I'm currently running a Shure V15Vxmr on an OL modified Rega RB250. I agree with everything you say about the cart's tracking and neutrality - I also got the cart I find any mistracking intolerable and I was fed up with the tracking distortion I was hearing with my Grado Sonata and Benz Glider (which, in fact, turned out to be defective). The Shure is a great cart for the money, and an excellent backup cart, or cart for a second system.

However, I find that I'm not willing to live permanently with this cart, primarily because of the lack of detail and because of the poor reproduction of spatial cues -- it just tends to 'flatten' out the music. This is true despite careful setup with a Wallytractor and playing around with VTA. On my system, the stabilizer brush made this weakness worse (in fact, any damping made this worse - I have a Townshend TT, and I ended up removing the damping trough with this cart). It's possible that what I'm hearing is due in part to a less than ideal match between the Shure and my Rega arm - which is really a bit heavier than the Shure would like to see. If your Morch has a low mass armtube, this might possibly explain why you got better results.


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  • Shure V15VxMR Phono Cartridge - Zack 06:23:54 09/18/03 (0)


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