I have played Dire Straits "Calling Elvis," El Ten eleven "Fanshawe," Steven Wilson's "Lazarus," and "Drive" and Previn Plays Gerschwin, "Rhapsody in Blue".
Looking forward to it warming up, opening up, breaking in.
I hear stuff now I didn't imagine was there. Fingers on fretboards and such. Very dynamic.
I LIKE bass, the overall "presense" this cartridge brings into the audio picture, but more than that I like realistic recreation, FEEL of the music. Next up is some RAMMSTEIN!
I'd posted elsewhere some months back asking about a couple other MC cartridges and remembered I'd bought this just shortly before getting Covid19 in Dec 2019. Just about killed me. Pneumonia, heart rhythm issues that have mostly resolved themselves (wife spent two nights in hospital), we lost Christmas that year. It was almost a year later I discovered a T-shirt my son had made for me (with my service dog's picture on it), some LP's my wife got me.
Then this. I found this wooden box wrapped in Benz Micro stamped paper and thought "when did I get THIS?" Meanwhile I'd bought an Ortofon Cadenza Black I have tried on the older SME 3009 tonearm, am looking forward to it when I get set up on the Series V in our new home sometime in the Spring.
I LIKED the Cadenza, but I think it was pushing the mechanics of the 3009 to get the best out of it.
Meanwhile, I hate to have to take the time to cobble together a protector. I could do it, but I figure with the number of them on the planet someone may have beaten me to it.