Dear Esoxhnrt: There are many cartridges that can mate with your SME tonearm.
One of that cartridges is the Sumiko Celebration ( you can read both Stereophile reviews on: the 20 and 30 SME TT's ).
I uese it in that configuration and is a great conbination very hard to beat, even for the XV-1 and Colibri ( that I own too ).
Fortunatelly your SME tonearm can match with several cartridges, the point here could be which are your music priorities and choose a cartridge that mates better with it.
An additional advantage with the Celebration is that is really " inexpensive ", you can try it, enjoy it and if you don't like it you couls sold it and go for the XV-1.
Yes, you have to change the phono cable: my advise is a simple one: Silver Oval from Analysis Plus. You ( like anybody ) don't have to pay thousand of dollar for a stellar performance like the Analysis Plus cables. There are many many mis-conceptions and non know-how in we customers about cables. Don't waste your money in KK dollars in cables: put your money on the software, LP's.
Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
One of that cartridges is the Sumiko Celebration ( you can read both Stereophile reviews on: the 20 and 30 SME TT's ).
I uese it in that configuration and is a great conbination very hard to beat, even for the XV-1 and Colibri ( that I own too ).
Fortunatelly your SME tonearm can match with several cartridges, the point here could be which are your music priorities and choose a cartridge that mates better with it.
An additional advantage with the Celebration is that is really " inexpensive ", you can try it, enjoy it and if you don't like it you couls sold it and go for the XV-1.
Yes, you have to change the phono cable: my advise is a simple one: Silver Oval from Analysis Plus. You ( like anybody ) don't have to pay thousand of dollar for a stellar performance like the Analysis Plus cables. There are many many mis-conceptions and non know-how in we customers about cables. Don't waste your money in KK dollars in cables: put your money on the software, LP's.
Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.