I have owned a number of older Duals (and liked them) and in their day, they were very well respected. Shure cartridges always seemed a nice match. I've used M91ED, M95ED etc. For your purposes, the 97EX is fine or maybe the Ortofon Red
Vintage Dual 1228 Turntable : worth to upgrade cartridge ?
I have from my college days (1977) Dual 1228 with original fitted Shure M95ED cartridge . It is maintained well , not used for about 20 years in between , but just cleaned , lubricated , resoldered some loose connections , etc and just runs great for me.
I am not too much into analogue , so not planning to do big time investment into new TT , Phono preamp , but if can get larger benefit by replacing the Shure M 95 ED with some new cart upto $ 200-300 , I would like to do it .
My Phono preamp is very low end Cambridge Audio MM 551P . To go with new upgraded cartridge , I may even consider to buy used Phono with budget of $1000 .
I would appreciate advice form FMs here , where I should spend my money to get most benifit on sound improvement . New cart , new phono ?
I am not too much into analogue , so not planning to do big time investment into new TT , Phono preamp , but if can get larger benefit by replacing the Shure M 95 ED with some new cart upto $ 200-300 , I would like to do it .
My Phono preamp is very low end Cambridge Audio MM 551P . To go with new upgraded cartridge , I may even consider to buy used Phono with budget of $1000 .
I would appreciate advice form FMs here , where I should spend my money to get most benifit on sound improvement . New cart , new phono ?