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Cartridge recommendations

Just had an unfortunate accident. While putting my Shelter 501 mk 11 cartridge on a new Audiomods arm, one of the electrodes on the cartridge snapped off. Almost impossible to repair.

I've been very happy with that cartridge. Bought it second hand for $500  
off Audiogon seven yrs ago, still going strong. Can't afford a new one, but if anyone has a used one in good condition, I'd buy it. Or are there any comparably good sounding carts people would like to recommend?
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invictus005
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I'm unable to find a better cartridge than the 2M Black and I've been trying many cartridges for a long time now. It's the closest to analog tape sound.
invictus005
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@chakster I have not tried those two cartridges yet, but I'm working on getting at least one of them to try, possibly the ML170. Great article BTW. I always knew that MM cartridges produced the closest sound to master tapes. However, 2M Black was not around when the article was written. 

I have a B77, but there are not many good prerecorded commercial reels available. I personally know two awesome people in Chicago who record jazz music on reel to reel tapes. Those sound tremendous. One of them sells 1:1 copies of his masters. Good stuff. 
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