Very impressed with my stylus upgrade.


I recently installed a bronze stylus on my blue Ortofon cartridge body. I have to say I’m truly impressed by the improvements. Greater detail, soundstage, and much richer and textured bass. Is Ortofon using a marketing ploy in forcing a body upgrade as well when changing stylus? Even with my semi-bronze or call it an “amber” cartridge, analog is so much more involving than digital, at least in my experience. At the the end isn’t the stylus the most important part of analog playback above all else? Any opinions from all the analog lovers out there?
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Greater detail, soundstage, and much richer and textured bass.

To me this describes good analog vs digital.  I use an Ortofon Bronze myself and when I play a really good clean pressing like a BlueNote first pressing by Plastylite from the late 50s/early 60s it sounds much better than hi-res digital through my Auralic Vega.  Once I get into the Liberty years I give the Vega the nod over analog.  It's the texture and larger soundstage that I hear when analog is magical.  I know I need to upgrade my TT gear if I want to take it to the next level.