Advice on best mid priced MM cartridge choice for Rega P3 (2016)

There is only one cartridge here that has an actual return policy. A policy that says, if you don't like it, return it for a refund.

And that is the new Teo Audio MM CBP Cartridge. 

We believe in it enough that we don't think that anyone will return it.  Even if they normally use cartridges that cost 2-3-4-5-x times as much. Be they MM or MC in type.

How about a MM cartridge, where the manufacturer believes in it so much, than they have a return policy?

Who has return policies for cartridges? Who the heck would do such a thing....

Perhaps they believe the the person buying it will never give it up, once it has actually been heard by them..and then, over time..by when heard by enough people..... the return policy can be put away.

Perhaps they believe, with a self changed stylu (purchased just about anywhere --price shopping)...from the supplied Elliptical ..up to a ML or Shibata tip.... that it exceeds, in overall sound quality...pretty well all other MM cartridges currently in existence.

The trick, is to try it early -- while the return policy still exists.

Logically, this can only work, for the buyer and the manufacturer both ---if all that is stated about potential, is actually true.

Additionally, that the given cartridge..just might drop onto a Rega turntable with perfect height - right from the get go.

I’m willing to bet that the Teo Audio ’CC’ MM cart, with a shibata, at $600, outperforms them all, Chalkster. Everything I know, multiple kitchen sinks..are in that cartridge. There is stuff in there...never seen in any cartridge.

So no, not junk.
The cartridges are new. Too new. Just arrived, in a crowded market. And when it becomes known, the prices will...by necessity... go up.

Consider the gauntlet thrown down. :)

The ’money back if you don’t like it’ (on the basic version) says it all.

Eg, the first buyer bought the CC version (carbon Composite shell) with a nude elliptical. His Ortofon A95 is away being re-tipped. Purchased to be his interim cartridge. He called it ’A triumph’.

I can do better, but I'd have to re-design all the alloys, metals, and plastics from the ground up. All of that is in hand, but unavailable due to financial constraints. And that means we have to sell a few of these - first.