Grado Prestige Blue Styli Turntable Stylus

Discount Price: $55.00

Customer Reviews:

Sound of Sibilance [Posted on 2005-09-25]
I have owned this Blue Prestige replacement stylus for over a year now with only one qualm;sibilance!...

Most of the Grado Prestige series cartridges from the black,green to the blue and red series all suffer from not being able to track harsh consonants like sh, s, z or t's very well.This will be highly notable as the cartridge tracks towards the inner groove (inner groove distortion).If you do not like the letter s cutting into your ears, then stay away from this stylus...A much better excellent tracker is the Audio Technica AT440ML with it's micro linear diamond. HOWEVER, a much more SUPERB tracker that will blow away the competition with regards to the Grado and Audio Technica is the Shure V15VxMR...I purchased the Shure about a year ago before all the hype about being discontinued.It is still available through certain online audio retailers.However, the price has practically doubled for the Shure !...

Enough of the Shure.While the Blue Grado stylus is harsh sounding with vocals, all is forgiven by how musical sounding it is with jazz, acoustical and even classical music.Guitar strings are plucky and you can feel the natural high frequency or resonance of cymbals and even tambourines. Bass is tight and not loose or boomy.On loud passages with rock music, electric guitars don't crackle. The sylus holds up pretty well. The mids are very impressive and sound natural.The mids is where this stylus really performs. Also, there is a very solid centered sound image. Some will argue that this only makes stereo music flat or mono-like. Yet, others will commend the Grado for "filling" in the gap of the soundstage!

Also, the Grados are not light trackers with their elliptical shaped styli and bulky looking cartridge body;they require tracking between 1.2-1.9 g. Keeping these setting parameters in mind, what you get is a very lively musical experience that for the price you cannot go wrong. Just don't have high expectations for this budget Grado stylus...

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