Hana makes great cartridges around your price range. Musical Surroundings has some very quiet and flexible phono stages in your price range. If you want to save some money and spend more on your cart, consider the Parks Puffin phono stage. It's excellent for the price.
recommendation for phono pre amp and mc cartridge, around 1000$ each
i’m using well tempered classic tt and arm.
it’s not heavy arm, think between light to medium ,not sure.
i’m giving this info since i know that it’s important to cartridge match.
the phono should have at list up to 60 db, so i can use MCLO cartridge.
and have several loading and gain settings.
is there any advantage to a low output Mc compare to high, or mid?
not sure if this important but i am listening to variety kinds of music.
jazz, rock , classical
thanks to anyone that will help.