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Cartridge Selection? Help

My ORACLE DELPHI V needs a new cartridge to mount on it's VPI JMW arm. The pre-amp is an SONIC FRONTIERS SFL2 SIG. or a MARK LEVINSON #25 with high-gain card.

Amongst others, I am considering the following:

Ortofon Rohmann MC
Lyra Helikon Reg. or SL
Crown Jewel Reference

These all sell for around 2k U.S. new or $600 - $800 "used".
My difficulty is in calculating the cartridge mass with that of the tonearm in order to obtain the optimum balance.

Would you analog experts point me in the best direction(s)!

Thanks, Colm
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jaica
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I own a shelter 901, which replaced a Lyra Helicon. I agree with Phild assesment of the Crown Jewel. My setup is a Graham 2.2, Oracle Delphy V. I found the Shelter had better bottom end, and warmer sound than the helikon, more to my licking.

I keeped the shelter and sold the Helikon, so that speaks for itself. The Shelter likes 100 ohm loading for transformers.

Enjoying the music in Puerto Rico. Good luck
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