Denon DP45f

[Medsca]

I just finished repairing an old 45f turntable. I am inquiring about a proper replacement head shell, cartridge, and stylus.
I am NOT a very experienced person when it comes to alignment and setup of the tonearm, etc. I just want to plug and play. And since the Turntable is functioning correctly after the cleaning and replacement of a few 50 volt capacitors.
The present setup is a DL60 on the original head shell and cartridge.
Thanks for any help.
FYI
The TT runs thru a Luxman L450 so I have the ability to use MM or MC
I am not a fan of bright or high treble sound if that helps.

 

[lini]

Jico offers a couple of upgrade needles for the DL-60 & -65, which you could consider. See there: https://www.jico-stylus.com/dde/

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[Balle Clorin]

There are really not much headshell options.. get a vintage one if you want to swap head shells/cartridge easy. Think that headshell are called PCL-30 of your table, just set up according to manual .. square and X mm distance from connecting edge and tip,,,my 51f has a longer arm and states 38mm from connection edge to stylus tip, the headshell called PLC-50 which is different from yours.

 

[DSJR]

If neutral (digital) sources don't feature in the frame, then one of the new Sumiko MM pickups (modern trendy external clothes and diamonds on a very well established (over many decades) generator may well do fine. Not sure a modern Grado would be stable enough in that arm (they really did used to roll the highs down in more recent designs).

It really does seem that many pickup designers, in an attempt to lift the once normal suckouts in the mid kHz 'presence' region, have allowed neutrality there at the expense of extreme hf rises which I don't mind but others do. That may well rule out the Ortofon 2M range (definitely not the lively, crisp-toned Red or Blue which can be fussy to set up, although the 2M Bronze or Black may balance okay for the OP, due to more sophisticated diamond profiles, which are also fussy initially. The better Nagaokas have always been quite neutral but the price hikes have, to me, taken them out of consideration.

As above with any possible AT cartridge choice, the Shibata tipped VM95SH, or VMx equivalent, the Shibata calming down the 'razor sharp exuberance' of the ML models without losing the extra resolution at side-end over the elliptical or especially conical versions. The Shibata transformed the OC9 MC range, taking a lean-toned but actually pretty neutral sound into a higher level of delicacy up top which is again clear, but not 'razor-sharp' as the ML models seem to offer.

AT-VM750xSH

All VMx cartridges feature a generator with paratoroidal coil construction: two coils per channel – one stacked behind the other – for greatly improved efficiency. A center shield plat ...

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