Denon DL-304 - (Cartridges)

Over the years I have owned many many cartridges, Shure V15, Linn Asak/Asaka, Ortofon, Rega, Linn K9, Satin etc etc and this Denon walks all over any of them. Its smooth but highly detailed, the mid range area is to die for, absolutely no aggression...

Dark and bassy sounding out of the box compared to Denon 103R. No sparkle and very little excitement. I will give it a month or two and if no improvement it will go to Ebay.

Very happy with this replacement for my venerable DL-303. Used in Technics 1200 TT with great success (12Gm effective mass arm). Sharply etched dynamics and detail, but never strident. Excellent stable stereo image with impressive 3D depth on many...

Mounted on a Linn LP12/Ittok/Lingo. Signal fed through a Denon 301 LC step-up transformer, Ming Da 767 RD RIAA-tube pre-amp/Krell KAV 250P/A and Monitor Audio speakers. For comparison: a Jungson SACD tube player and Marantz/DAC-inthebox2 CD player.

I love this cartridge. The strongest suit is its fabulous midband. It almost seems to spotlight vocals. Filigree detailing is superb and if you was more of those moments when you just look up at your stereo and go F*%K that sounds brilliant, buy one of...