Hi nickt,
Since you've already got a MM phono section, why not try(arguably) the best MM cart on the market right now or ever made - The Cartridge Man Music Maker III. Check out the reviews on the MM3 webpage.
It has a 4mV output and tracks like nobody's business. This is a superb cart for getting back into vinyl(in my fairly limited experience). There's one or two "New in Box" ones being sold here right now for $775
Since you've already got a MM phono section, why not try(arguably) the best MM cart on the market right now or ever made - The Cartridge Man Music Maker III. Check out the reviews on the MM3 webpage.
It has a 4mV output and tracks like nobody's business. This is a superb cart for getting back into vinyl(in my fairly limited experience). There's one or two "New in Box" ones being sold here right now for $775
" The MusicMaker (Mk II) is an extremely interesting product; it links the best of both (MM and MC) worlds together; it is clean, accurate and detailed like a good MC while it has the warmth and the "weight" of the best MM's.
In the end, the quality/price ratio of this cartridge is simply excellent. Only real Music Lovers apply."
Lucio Cadeddu, TNT AUDIO
"The first thing you notice is the solidity and presence it has compared to almost all MC cartridges. There's a sense of unstoppable momentum to music...
For anyone using a valve pre-amp like a Conrad-Johnson or early ARC, this cartridge is manna from heaven.
Being used to hearing vastly expensive MCs in a system tailored to their balance, the MusicMaker never left me feeling short-changed. ... never was a product so aptly named; never was an alternative so welcome."
Roy Gregory, Hi-Fi+, 5/00, P52-53
The first and lasting impression of the MusicMaker, with perhaps excrutiatingly obvious tautology, is how well it makes music. Its ability to retrieve and to communicate the essentials of music making rhythmic and dynamic flow and articulation, organic and identifiable timbre, and sonic punctuation (phrasing, parsing, point of arrival and expression) - grabs one immediately. So convincing is the music making that one is loath to analyze just how it does it. It almost seems irrelevant to analytically break down its sonic performance; so convincing is its musical gestalt. At a time when many cartridges are named after insects, amphibians, various types of wood and gems, and references to Greek mythology, its refreshing to hear a cartridge literally named after what its supposed to do.
Paul Szabady, Stereotimes, September 2004