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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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tapashead OP
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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? my general experience with audio technicas is that they are on the bright side of the spectrum (as opposed to grados which are on the dark side). i kind of prefer dark to bright all things being equal.

is this not the case with the 440?
tapashead OP
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hi psychicanimal... that may be the ticket i'm looking for! can you tell me a bit about what that might sound like? also, you mention the JICO for the v15 type III, is this talked about as better than the JICO with the type IV (that is also available?)... thanks
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