IIRC, there used to be two schools - the "Mellow" school that liked Stanton, and the "clinical" school that liked stuff like the Shure V15. I don't know where Ortophon filled into that \:\)

Just to muddy the waters, different cartridges are supposed to be happier on different tonearms. This is before they had digital jitter to argue about.

Shane

Raspberry Pi running Squeezelite->IQAudio Pi-DAC->NAD C320BEE amp->Usher S-520 bookshelf speakers