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Thorens 126 MKII Needle/Cartridge

Sam Cogley said:
It's sloppy reasoning to dismiss the whole p-mount concept due to the inadequacies of one cheap table. I have a fairly high-end JVC linear tracker that's p-mount, and it's sounds wonderful - particularly with an AT Shibata stylus, an Ortofon X1-MCP, or the Digitrac 280NE that I use for testing clean but unknown-condition records.
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I don't doubt that they can sound good, and a linear tracker sounds like an ideal application. But I've never heard one that did sound good on a pivot arm.

I tend to think that most (not all) P-mount tables are the products of the BPC era, and I just avoid them, so I admittedly have limited experience with them. The only one I own (a Technics SL-QD33) is pretty unimpressive.
 
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Could anybody please recommend a low-output moving coil cartridge for this turntable? I´ve got a Yamaha MC-7 and would like to try something better, in the under 500 $ category. I listen to classical music. Many thanks for any input!
 
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