Wow, great posts! What prompted the OP was finally finding the right cartridge for my vintage Thorens TD 150mkII. I installed just this week an Audio-Techinca AT 150Sa which is an evolution from the AT 150MLX no longer available. Right out of the box clearly better match than other similarly priced cartridges I have tried. Can now play with B&W digital sub with zero or at least unnoticeable single digit Hz rumble. 45 rpm recordings were especially challenging before, not now. New AT cartridge has excellent tracking and bass, ruler flat frequency response. According to only review I could find, this cartridge is supposed to have more fully fleshed out midrange compared with the 150MLX but reserving judgement on overall sound till broken in. Grado in system previously was champ in that department, but rumble was awful.