Quote Originally Posted by JohnMichael
Emaidel I think your turntable is a good one. I would think about a cartridge before I would consider anything else. Also even more important is proper alignment of the cartridge in the arm. What do you use when you install a cartridge?
When I received my CS-5000, it came with a cardboard overhang adjustment that the seller had very carefully packaged so as not to get bent. For the life of me, I've never beeen able to figure out how to use it! Fortunately, he included the original instruction manual that has a cutout overhang adjustment on its back page, and I used that.

Since the turntable came with a Shure V/15 Type V mxr, I tried that out first. I thought it was a pleasasnt enough sounding cartridge, but a little too "polite" and "genteel." I installed my Stanton Collector's Series CS-100 (essentially, a hand-tweaked upgrade of the 881-S MK II) and greatly preferred it: a lot more "bite" to the music, and an overall liveliness I found totally lacking in the Type V.

Most people at this site (and others) never heard a CS-100, and that's too bad - it's really a wonderful cartridge, but not, as Walter Stanton believed to his dying day, "infinitely better than any moving coil could ever possibly be." Walter steadfastly believed that the moving coil design was inherently inferior to the moving magnet design, despite the fact that audiophiles worldwide disagreed. I don't know whether or not this was a belief he initiated himself, or was one that was a result of the constant flow of disinformation from the circle of "yes-men" he surrounded himself with. After all, the company's name was "Stanton Magnetics."