Cartridge for punk, rock, emo, indie?

"07-26-13: Schubert
Because an accurate cart makes many rock records unlistenable could be one reason."

Why?

Rlwainwright does bring up a good point. If you buy a cart and use it like a tone control, you may cause more problems than you fix. Its kind of like buying an EQ with only 1 setting. The music you are listening to has a very wide range as to the quality and balance of the recordings. Some will be very good, and some very bad. I know EQ's are not very popular with a lot of people on this web site, but in some cases, it makes sense to use them. My suggestion would be to just get a decent, well rounded cart, and an EQ. The EQ can be run through the tape loop or to another channel on the preamp. Then all you have to do is switch it back and forth, depending on when its needed. More importantly, you are allowing each piece to do what it was designed to do. That would give you much better results. I use an EQ myself to deal with bad recordingd. Behringer makes some very good EQ's that don't cost a lot of money. I have a Ultragraph Digital DEQ1024 that works very well for me. Its an option you may want to conseder.