What's your turntable and tonearm?
Those are a couple of great candidates for high output cartridges in that price range, but so is the Audio Technica AT150MLX (available for significantly less at lpgear.com), the Grado Reference Platinum or Sonata, Clearaudio Artist or Performer, Goldring 10x2 series, or Goldring G2300 or G2400.
I have been loving my Audio Technica AT150MLX for 4-1/2 years. It was an Absolute Sound Cartridge of the Year in the Jan 2012 issue, and the stylus is currently replaceable for $225. The only caveat is to make sure you give it a total capacitive load of 100-200 pF.
Oh, and the AT150MLX has as sophisticated a stylus as you'll likely find--a MicroLine, normally only found on $2K and up LOMCs.
Those are a couple of great candidates for high output cartridges in that price range, but so is the Audio Technica AT150MLX (available for significantly less at lpgear.com), the Grado Reference Platinum or Sonata, Clearaudio Artist or Performer, Goldring 10x2 series, or Goldring G2300 or G2400.
I have been loving my Audio Technica AT150MLX for 4-1/2 years. It was an Absolute Sound Cartridge of the Year in the Jan 2012 issue, and the stylus is currently replaceable for $225. The only caveat is to make sure you give it a total capacitive load of 100-200 pF.
Oh, and the AT150MLX has as sophisticated a stylus as you'll likely find--a MicroLine, normally only found on $2K and up LOMCs.