Anyone here have experience with the Denon DP-35F?

I have one of the DP-37F in rosewood as well, I traded a Thorens for it. The plinth, the arm, and the dustcover are completely flawless. I just had it set up by a friend a couple weeks ago. We played Dark Side of the Moon through my SDA SRS with a little 100wpc Hafler and it sounded excellent. I just upgraded to a 200wpc Hafler last weekend and that made all the difference in the world, much better bass now.

I know thats what the factory manual says, but like I said, I’m pretty sure mine had the DL160. I know this because when I bought the table I was told not to get any table with an MM cartridge, always buy MC. I heard that lecture any time I was shopping or even talking about a table. The guys in the store hooked me up since I was there part-time. This was 1985, I think. I had looked at the cartridge numerous times at home and I remember seeing "DL160" on the body. 

I like Denon DP-80 turntable and Denon DA-401 tonearm. I also have Denon original plinth for my DP-80.

If you want Denon cartridges you can look for DL-103D or S. 
Or you can look for MM cartridges like DL-107 if you want that denon sound.

Pickering XSV/3000 and Stanton 881 are great at your price and probably better.

Thank you, I'll look into those. I didn't know Pickering was still in business. 

Chakster: 

Pickering and Stanton are still in business, but audiophiles are not their target market anymore, since Walter O. Stanton sold the company in the late 90s. However, best cartridges from the 80’s - early 90s still can be found NOS (I bought many and was lucky). Two models mentioned above are about $350

Thanks for the info. What about Ortofon? With Shure and Stanton, those were the big 3 when I first started out. Nagaoka, Pickering, and I think Sumiko were also there. I really liked Nagaoka's support products - the various cleaners and anti-static devices. 

Interesting that you mentioned that, DeKay. The friend who set up my 37F just bought an A-T VM95SH, which he's mounted on an SME-armed Thorens. He's very satisfied with it. The 95SH stylus is a nude Shibata. How does that compare to the nude Microline in the 540ML?

I'm not familiar with the Vienna Master Series. Are those the go-to CDs for a quality performance with excellent recording? I've recently started exploring classical again (or "classical", since I've been listening to later composers like Satie, Orff, Debussy and Stravinsky as opposed to my earlier Haydn, Beethoven and Chopin), but aside from streaming the stuff over Youtube I haven't been able to decide on what prerecorded material to invest in.   

Well, this doesn't bode well:

This series includes a substantial number of fraudulently described recordings, based exclusively on the catalog sold by the fraudster Alfred Scholz. Although fraudulently described as "digitally recorded" DDD, virtually all of the recordings are old analogue recordings made before the first digital recordings were made. Many of the releases are credited to the semi-fake Süddeutsche Philharmonie, the Philharmonia Slavonica, the fake Camerata Roman, and the fake Caspar da Salo Quartet. The names of real orchestras, like the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Festival Orchestra and the Ljubljana Radio Symphony have been falsely used on recordings not made by these orchestras. Fake/fictitious conductors include: Alberto Lizzio, Henry Adolph, Carlo Pantelli, Sven Bengtson, Vladimir Petroschoff, Loic Bertrand, Eugen Duvier, Peter Sternand others.

Did you send me the wrong link?

There were a substantial amount of bad reviews, and they seemed centered around the mastering code rather than the actual quality. Since you have them, are you able to tell if they're AAD or ADD? Not that it really matters, but I'm just interested in knowing. 

BTW, at $20 / 100 discs, you scored pretty good there, pal.