DJing Best Needle Cartridges

[chuckc]

What would you recommend for buying a new needle cartridge for the turntable?

[subterFUSE]

Re: Best Needle Cartridges

What would you recommend for buying a new needle cartridge for the turntable?

For DJing, or for archiving your vinyl collection to digital?

If you are going to be archiving your vinyl, then you want a moving coil cartridge. They're way more expensive but the sound quality is much better.

[chuckc]

Re: Best Needle Cartridges

^^ just for home listening on the stereo, do you have a brand and model recommendation,
thanks for responding

[subterFUSE]

Re: Best Needle Cartridges

Ortofon is the brand I've always used.

Moving coil cartridges are VERY expensive. You'll probably want to find the most affordable model, which I think is the MC-1 Turbo. Runs $200 I think? It will still be much more accurate than a DJ stylus.

Moving Coils can easily cost more than $5000 for the high end stuff. I've seen some that are $15,000.