@fourwnds We need to go back to basics for a moment. If you have a respectable cartridge to begin with (which your Grado is, or was) all of the components in that cartridge were designed to work together. Magnets, coil windings, cantilever, etc.. The designer spent a lot of time choosing the right components that would work well together at a given price point. Now, you take that cartridge and replace the cantilever with one that was not designed to work with the other component parts. It won't be the same cartridge. Even if your replacement cantilever is far more expensive (better) than the one it is replacing, the other cartridge components were not designed to work with it.
Recent retip(canti also) Dude where did my soundstage width go
I'm trying to not get worked up because it's a huge trade off. I've put 10hours on it so far. Crisper and more detailed. There's some bass on a couple jazz records that I know and that I very thrilled about. But, everything is bunched up between speakers comparably. In anybody's experience will my Grado Reference1 open back up. I've not done this before and I'm kinda thinking this is the side of my "new" cart that I'm gonna have to learn to live with. I was warned by plenty of researching that it would change and be a different cart but in my optimism I didn't realize a better (boron cantilever/micro ridge stylus) replacing a previously considered lower quality cantilever/stylus would turn out to be disappointing. Thanks