Ziggy,
In addition to the excellent suggestions you're trying now, here's one more.
Read this thread. The simple tonearm mod explained there:
- was specifically designed for OL and Rega arms,
- was specifically designed for Shelter, Denon and similar, low compliance cartridges and,
- confers a major improvement in the strength of bass and dynamics.
Dozens of people have tried this mod since it was developed in 2003. The results have been univerally positive. My own OL Silver became a giant killer arm. With this mod it outplayed a $3K Graham 2.2 and at least matched my $4K TriPlanar for bass clarity and strength, using the same Shelter cartridge on all three arms.
All it takes is $5 and an hour's time. Given your stated goals, I can't recommend this mod highly enough.
In addition to the excellent suggestions you're trying now, here's one more.
Read this thread. The simple tonearm mod explained there:
- was specifically designed for OL and Rega arms,
- was specifically designed for Shelter, Denon and similar, low compliance cartridges and,
- confers a major improvement in the strength of bass and dynamics.
Dozens of people have tried this mod since it was developed in 2003. The results have been univerally positive. My own OL Silver became a giant killer arm. With this mod it outplayed a $3K Graham 2.2 and at least matched my $4K TriPlanar for bass clarity and strength, using the same Shelter cartridge on all three arms.
All it takes is $5 and an hour's time. Given your stated goals, I can't recommend this mod highly enough.