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Pls Recommend Grado Green vs. Red P-Mount for Me?

I have a Technics SLBD-5 (belt-drive) turntable and only use it to play records that will probably never be available on CD, which means a few hours of play per year, is there any reason for me to purchase a $110 Grado Red P-mount instead of just a $60 Grado Green P-Mount?

After a recent incident (my only other recent Audiogon thread, if you're interested) that took 8 months to solve (the cause was a defective Audio-Technica cartridge from a mail order dealer) I am reluctant to purhcase another cartridge online. That leaves me with only one local source of a P-mount cartridge - Grade. (Who else makes quality P-mounts anyway? Ortofon, Audio-Technica and Grado as far as I can see.)

Thanks for your advice.
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crem1
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Grado sells quality products; the differences between the cartridges are most probably one is "hand selected" meaning a few more quality checks versus fewer or none for the other. Go with the Grado , remember that company invented the modern cartridge. Great value for the money.
crem1
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The question that you posed isn't that easy to answer. Unless, we take into account the Turntable( read complete record player) as a part of the solution/answer.

Turntables design, construction and manufacturing execution account for much of what a cartridge is capable of revealing. Audio-heads attest that a hand full of modest priced tables(record players) that can reveal as much as the "high priced spread"; unfortunately, yours has limits that are the fault of limits imposed by an industry that expolits our knowedge base. Again, I suggest that you buy a modestly priced Grado (read green) that over-looks the limits to bring music to your ears.
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