That was my experience with the at440. I thought it was too tilted towards the high and a bit harsh and hard sounding. For less money a Denon 110 sounds more evenly balanced and detailed. That is my budget cartridge of choice.
Recommend a cartridge for my new TT
I'm finally getting back into vinyl, and I need some recommendations for the best $500 or less cartridge (new or used) to get for a Clearaudio Performance SE TT I'm buying. The table has the Satisfy Carbon Fiber arm. For now, I'll be running the table thru the phono stage (MM)on my Denon AVR-3300 until I see how things sound that way, but maybe get a separate phono stage later if it would make a noticable improvement. Speakers are Monitor Audio Silvers. I tend to listen to older music, all on CD, like Donald Fagen, Boz Scaggs, Tina Turner, Garth Brooks, War, del Amitri, Patsy Cline, Robert Palmer...., well you probably get the idea where my tastes are, though some classical is appealing also.
Any suggestions as to what would work well with this setup?
Any suggestions as to what would work well with this setup?