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High end turntable cartridges
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I have a question on high end tt carts. Why don't ALL high end carts use microline styli? Or at least something in that vein like shibata? I'll see $1000 carts online sometimes that will have like nude elliptical. This puzzles me because, by definition, only MicroLine can get into ALL ofnthe records grooves during playback, so if a manufacturer is already going to go all out on a state of the art cantilever and MC, why would they sacrifice tracking accuracy by using a subpar stylus shape? Especially since some "cheaper" carts (like my VM540ML, $300) use MicroLine

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