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Any cartridges like Shure, but more exciting?

any cartridges that have the same fundamental musicality and fantastic tracking ability of the shures (even the cheap 97x and of course the v15mx) but have more musical emotional presentation? around 250 or so would be great... (i was thinking grado platinum, but i've never heard a grado track really well on the inner grooves... lots of SSS's)
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as1963
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>interesting, i had thought about the 440mla...
>but read a lot of folks describing it as on the
>brighter side of tonal balance?

I hate bright (vinyl, tubes, soft-dome tweeters are my favs).
The AT440ml *IS* bright. The 440mlA is just RIGHT.

Alberto
as1963
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Audio Technica AT440mla. Do a Google search and I doubt you'll see a cart with more fans and virtually no negative reviews.

I tracks better than the Shures (using the HiFi News Test LP for objective results), much lower surface noise, great inner-groove tracking, and has the excitement you are looking for.

Alberto

PS I own several Shures V15s and M97s, the 440mla beats them all (as well as some of my $400+ carts).
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