Some help please with Cartridge choices

Thanks OP! If you ever get a green light on the TT, the Clearaudio Jubilee TTs are really good and the Unity is an astonishingly good arm. Expensive yes, but not out of place in your system.

@knownothing 

Thanks for the Lyra suggestion.  I've explored the possibility of Lyra in the past, but have never heard them.  I think I was steered in another direction years ago.  FWIW, I really love the Van den Hul cart.  The sonic character of the MSL is supposedly similar, but better than the VDH.

@yoyoyaya Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll put it in my TT wish list.

OP said

"I prefer a musical and less analytical sound, more rounded than sharp edges. The Hana is in the budget and available."

I heard my friend Rick’s wood bodied Benz Micro Ruby Wood SL here in my system, new Line Contact tip in OEM Boron Rod. I think OP would like it a lot, I certainly do. I need more time to compare it, describe it, but it was instantly ’involving’, a definite keeper. I don’t think it needs ’break-in’, Vintage suspension, may need a few hours to loosen up, I’ll get back to it in a few days.

Today, Audio Show, I briefly heard a Lyra Atlas, it’s quite something, not for me, but immediately you are aware ’everything is there’, not analytical, not bright, not warm, perhaps measurably quite accurate, but it somehow was not as involving as others I or my friends own.

btw, Vinyl sounded better than streaming everywhere my friend and I went.

This CD Receiver one speaker maker used sounded surprisingly good

https://www.musicdirect.com/disc-player/technics-sa-c600-network-cd-receiver-factory-second/?sku=RF_ATECHSAC600S&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=18152791641&gbraid=0AAAAAD8z8foP09HHShUZhz2IhzsHIhFKw&gclid=CjwKCAjwjffHBhBuEiwAKMb8pJjbu5AGtCc9X7-AK2942EZB2ZOXC_mrv0BcIfWuhZBUH5fFks23MhoCXpgQAvD_BwE

One more to throw in the mix might be the Fuuga.  Have heard it at several shows over the last couple years on a number of different, but very nice sounding systems.