The Denon cartridges I'm referring to are the Dl 103R and the DL 110 . None of them have a conical stylus as that would be the DL 103 which does have the lower grade conical Stylus . Both DL103R and DL 110 are moving coil designs with super polished Elliptical stylus .
Another thing which I could do which I forgot to mentioned is send my busted Ortofon to soundsmith for retipping which as I have calculated would put me back less then 300 dollars .
I must confess still being surprise at how good the Grado Black sounds . And to think I've had it for over 10 years without ever hearing it just because of its very low price compared with others .
On another note I am still scratching.my head on the Nagaoka MP110 . I was for the price expecting great performance because of all the great things said about it all over the internet .
The literture says 30 hours of breakin and right now it is past that arriving to at least the 50 hour mark . When new its sound was more or less what people described , soft , warm with tonedowned treble response but good detail and dynamics .
But upon arriving at the recommended breakin it started to change . It lost some of its warmth and adquired a more neutral caracter with better topend extensions but that topend extension was acompanied by a upfront sound at the treble with grain and harshness on high dynamic swings .
In none of the reviews I have read on the Nagaoka MP110 have I read about this sort of sound coming from this cartridge .
Maybe its a incompatability issue between compliance and tonearm mass . Some have stipulated that the Nagaoka even though being a MM design its cantilevel is really low compliance and not medium or high as some think it to be .
For whatever the reason I'm not happy with the way it sounds on my audio rig . Bummer , as if I would have liked it I wouldn't be searching for another cartridge after my stupidity with my Ortofon. .
Another thing which I could do which I forgot to mentioned is send my busted Ortofon to soundsmith for retipping which as I have calculated would put me back less then 300 dollars .
I must confess still being surprise at how good the Grado Black sounds . And to think I've had it for over 10 years without ever hearing it just because of its very low price compared with others .
On another note I am still scratching.my head on the Nagaoka MP110 . I was for the price expecting great performance because of all the great things said about it all over the internet .
The literture says 30 hours of breakin and right now it is past that arriving to at least the 50 hour mark . When new its sound was more or less what people described , soft , warm with tonedowned treble response but good detail and dynamics .
But upon arriving at the recommended breakin it started to change . It lost some of its warmth and adquired a more neutral caracter with better topend extensions but that topend extension was acompanied by a upfront sound at the treble with grain and harshness on high dynamic swings .
In none of the reviews I have read on the Nagaoka MP110 have I read about this sort of sound coming from this cartridge .
Maybe its a incompatability issue between compliance and tonearm mass . Some have stipulated that the Nagaoka even though being a MM design its cantilevel is really low compliance and not medium or high as some think it to be .
For whatever the reason I'm not happy with the way it sounds on my audio rig . Bummer , as if I would have liked it I wouldn't be searching for another cartridge after my stupidity with my Ortofon. .