Great vintage MM cartridge for my Nottingham Analogue Spacedeck/Spacearm. Recommendations?


Currently have Goldring 1042. It is good but I might want to go higher. VAC Avatar SE tube integrated with onboard MM phono stage. I have no plans to upgrade it soon and go with a separate tube phono.

If not vintage, do you think that Nagaoka MP500 and the least expensive Audio Note would give a significant improvement ?

I am talking about $1000 cartridge, new or used.

What are your thoughts ?

 

inna

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Just thought about trying vintage MM cartridge, there is a talk in town that some of them are better than modern MMs. But I am not fixated on this idea.

No intention to move to LOMC - too expensive for a good one plus either outboard phono stage or SUT. And HOMC would make little sense to me.

Yeah, that's what I thought - Nagaoka MP-500 or Audio Note IQ3 if not vintage.

By the way, which one of the two would overall sound better in Nottingham Spacearm ? What would be your best guess ? Or just sound different ?

That would be a pain for me. In this case, I prefer constancy, just one cartridge.