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Quality
Very pleased with the m97xe comparable to the v15 type 3 from the 70s
Easy installation and alignment with the included protractor
But i dont have a megadollar top studio quality perfect stereo system so a cartridge which sounds better on my neighbors system... Read More
I bought one of these as a back up to my shure v15vxmr after that model was discontinued due to the difficulties of working wit... Read More
Price
Is it as good or better than cartridges that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars more
As mentioned i bought this when the price was 100110 only a few years ago
77 and now the cost has sored to 429
Packaging/appearance
This happened to me even when i just put it in the tonearm
Competitiveness
Put this on a audiotechnica headshell and use if for my at120 and it sounds great
Cartridges ive used recently include audiotechnica at95e grado prestige black and audiotechnica at92ecd in other words
Metal bodied with an easy to replace highquality diamond stylus
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 76.0% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 1,148 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 3 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Sorry correction i paid 90 i checked it’s awesome cartridge for even 150 but for 500 you can get lot better then this
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Cut to the chase the stock 97xe while having a strong familial resemblance to the v15v sounded like it had just a bit of fur on it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Great sounding cartridgestyluspacking is excellent but did not arrive with stylus guardcover
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It is pricy just because they are not produced any more
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Shure has been around and they know the mechanics of sound totally unintentional rhyme there
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I do find its performance to be pretty articulate and to my ears at least it sounds great and i feel that its accurately reproducing my music
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Again i dont have a plethora of confoundingly obscure and largely subjective audiophile terms to describe it i just know that i dig it and that it tracks far better than anything else ive used to date and at a miniscule down force of only 1
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
My guess is that the brush altered the contact of the stylus meeting the vinyl and since theres so little tracking force required to make it work well i think that may have factored in
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