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| Shure M97xE High-Performance Magnetic Phono Cartridge | 
 enlarge | Brand: Shure
Category: CE
List Price: $140.00
Buy New: $51.37
You Save: $88.63 (63%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  70 reviews
Color: black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 3 x 7 x 1.3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: M97XE
Model: M97XE
UPC: 042406060370
EAN: 0042406060370
ASIN: B00006I5SB
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Never heard LPs like this before June 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
After the stylus of my prior Audio Technica AT120 cartridge became inexplicably "mis-aligned" (read bent), I began my search for a new cartridge.
Enter the M97xE, I installed this cartridge in my JVC JL-F45 turntable and initially expected to listen to my albums pretty much the same way I had before. Was I wrong.....
Long story short this is the cleanest sound I have heard from my records in a good long while. I have now listened to music from all across the board with this, from modern power pop link the Ting Tings, to Neil Diamond, to Led Zeppelin, to the beatles, to Queens of the Stone Age. This is by far the best balanced I've ever heard out of my turn table.
Giddy up!
 A decent cart for little change. June 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was able to procure this little goody from a work bonus. At 60 bucks it is not going to break the bank. That said I will try to perform a fair comparison. It is not a $3000.00 benz micro cartridge. Of course I don't have a VPI turntable either. When compared to all the current carts in my arsenal I would consider this one to be the most listenable. I had a Grado blue cart for quite some time and the one is much more forgiving to aging vinyl. Side by side on a 180g vinyl it sounds much more transparent than the grado. Oh yeah and the grado is around 160 bucks. It out performed my previous audio technica PB33E. Much more midrange and treble clarity. Not all the noise my grado had either on less than perfect wax. After fitting the aforementioned AT cart with a shibata stylus the results were similar. Still yet this shure was less noisy consistently. I have a technics SL22 BD and a fisher MT-6330 direct drive table. I have also listened to this cart on a sumiko project debut III table as well. You will be pleased. Its not quite a V15 but its not expensive either. If you need a decent cart for the price and like listening to your vinyl then you can't go wrong here.
 Can be too "laid back" for some systems May 31, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have all solid state gear, and even so, this cartridge sounded much too laid back and warm for my tastes to the point of being bland. I like a little more involvement in my music. I suspect it would sound even more dull with tube gear. I currently run the AT440MLa which has enough "sizzle" for me (without being overly bright).
It's not a "bad" cartridge; some folks love them for the warm sound.
Phono cartridges are inherently subjective so reviews don't really mean much. It's too bad somebody doesn't rent cartridges so a person could try out several. That's the only way to know.
 Shure M97xE phono cartridge May 26, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This MM cartridge has a warm sound and good presence-best for older vocal music.
It seems however to deliver a lesser output than the specs quote-about 30% lower than my several other MM cartridges-but not a major problem for my Sony CD burner to deal with.
Good value for the price.
Good Cartridge, Poor Manual May 12, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It arrived promptly from Amazon in perfect condition and it was a bargain price. Setup was a bit uncertain because the manual is not detailed and does not describe how to adjust it for optimum sound. I compared it to an Ortofon M15 E Super and an AT ATP-2 by first recording a WAV file from each cartridge using a track off Paul Simon's "There Goes Rhymin Simon." I used this album because of its clean sound and because I also have the commercial CD. Listening blind (on my medium quality computer speakers, headphones or Klipsch speakers), I can't reliably tell which track is which. Interestingly, the commercial CD does have a distinctly different and somewhat more processed sound.
The Sure M97XE cartridge when mounted on a Stanton head shell (cheap from Amazon) works well and tracks beautifully when set to the recommended 1.75 grams tracking force (with the stabilizer brush down) and the anti-skate dial set to 2 on my AT-PL120 turntable. It can also be set to 1.25 grams with the stabilizer brush up, but I detected no improvement in sound quality.
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