2M red is a good cart, nice and easy to just switch out up to a black too
It’s certainly not bad, but it won’t be around forever. To me this sounds almost exactly like a DJ cart, high volume, lots of bass…the stage is narrower though somehow, highs and midrange reduced…low midrange is also a little more murky…which doesn’t matter on hiphop but kinda fucks up Yes. It’s…too loud.
This isn’t necessarily the way the cart itself is on its own, but when combined with my specific system which had a lot more definition in some areas when the Grado was installed. I’m not disappointed or anything. I didn’t pay full price, Turntable Lab sells this Denon with the 2M as an optional upgrade. It will always have some job in my house…but I think I need some other family of cartridge eventually.
I *am* a little disappointed in the Denon DP300 that I received…the point of me getting a new auto TT was to replace the extremely tired Panasonic I’ve been using. I didn’t want to have to make repairs to a brand new unit…but that’s what I ended up doing. I probably should have sprung for the Thorens…