Review on 🎶 Enhance Your Vinyl Experience with Audio-Technica AT-VM95SH/H Turntable Headshell/Cartridge Combo Kit by Luis Tuazon

This is my first new cartridge in 35 years. I wanted to convert my vinyl collection to wav and flac files and I wanted to use the best audiophile cassette. The sound of this AT-VM95SH is truly incredible! I'm an audio engineer and I have "ears". My old cartridges from 35 years ago were standard mid-range cartridges (Shure/Pickering), they sounded good until I compared them to this cartridge. This cassette removes the "Dim Veil" in front of the music. You don't know the curtain is there until you listen to a record through this car. I'm happy knowing this is as close as possible to how the sound engineer heard the album before it went into the press/mastering lab. I didn't really break this cartridge, but I'm perfectly happy with it. I used it on a Technics SL1200 MK2. I ordered a needle and shell combo and it came right out of the box with the right fit. I checked the specification of the manual and also the alignment sheet. Perfect balance in the body. I used the Neoteck Digital Stylus Gauge for a tip pressure of exactly 2.0. Anti-Skating was set to 2. I deleted a silent copy of the Eagles albums Hotel California, Greatest Hits and UFO Lights Out. I first recorded wav files from a mid-range 35 year old Pickering cartridge and then installed that cartridge on the same player with the same setup. In both cases, I connected a Behringer UFO202 USB box directly to the computer, bypassing the Onkyo TX930 Rxer phono stage. I then did an A/B comparison (both carts) of both sets of WAV files via (high quality) headphones. I didn't want speaker color or room noise. Simply sound directly into the eardrum. The result is the incredible tone of this AT-VM95SH cartridge compared to the old cartridge. If you really want to hear all the music. In the grooves (without "veils") it is a cart. The music now has room to breathe, it has a dynamic that the old pickup didn't have, I hear things more clearly than before in the detail and pinpoint focus of the instruments being panned in the mix. Now I can hear the clean sound of a pick on the strings of an acoustic guitar, not just a blur of sound. Power chords aren't just a tamed crunch, I can actually make out the individual harmonic tones of the strings, and power dynamics aren't just a loud hum. I can almost tell you which foot pedals Michael Schenker used on the UFO record. I also hear depth of reverberation and precise panning, and my hearing (I'm 58) is only good up to 12k. The stereo depth is truly overwhelming. The records have this new extra dynamic range and energy levels, for example the limiters/compressors have been removed from the records. I would describe this pickup as "captivating" because it has the magical ability to give me music without the sound of an "empty veil" in front of it.