Why I buy this one ?
- High-performance phono cartridge with finely polished elliptical diamond tip
- Accurately reproduces difficult musical passages, particularly in high-frequency range
- Viscous-damped dynamic stabilizer maintains uniform distance between cartridge and record
- Side-Guard system prevents stylus damage if cartridge accidentally slides across LP
- Die-cast-aluminum mounting block; includes mounting hardware and leaning brush

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What our customer's say!

"Good cartridge for the price", I purchased this cartridge to replace a shure m70ej which I had installed on a rebuilt sanyo tp-1030, as a good replacement stylus for the m70 can be hard to come by. The m97xe tracks excellently, and gives crisp highs, along with strong bass. I find the midrange to be somewhat lacking. Although this cart sounds good, it lacks the warmth of the cartridge it replaced. Those of you who use the LAST preservative might find an improvement in performance, I certainly did. To be fair, I haven't played this cartridge enough for it to be considered broken in, but some AT's I've purchased sounded great out of the box. Ease of installation and the included protractor helped with the score on this product. Most purchasers will be happy with this item, unless you're a hardcore audiophile with 3k dollar tube amps and moving coil cartridges.

"Perhaps a little too warm...", Overall, the Shure M97xE is a pretty good cartridge. It sounds nice and the dynamic stabilizer works well with old, dusty records, but I tend to find myself turning up the treble on my stereo when I use it. Excellent for softer and more vocal music, but much of the music I listen to is neither particularly soft or vocally based.

"Continuing the Shure tradition", When I needed to replace my old Shure V15 Type 5 cartridge, I was disappointed to see that it was no longer available. However, the M97xE seems to match the performance of the old cartridge quite nicely -- considering that the V15 series was a "gold standard" for phono cartridges for many years, that is a solid compliment.

"Never heard LPs like this before", 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.

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"A decent cart for little change.", 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.

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"ShureM97xE Phone Cartridge", While I am pleased with the Shure phono cartridge and the prompt service of J&R Music & Computer World, I preferred the sound quality and separation of my mid-70's vintage AudioTechnica 100. Given the opportunity to listen and compare, I would probably have purchased a different cartridge. For the price though, the Shure, $69.99 including shipping, is hard to beat.

"Well worth the wait - Best bang for my buck", The SHURE M97xE (M97) audiophile phonograph cartridge gives nearly as good of sound quality (tonally) as my SHURE V15 Type III (V15) at half the cost, thanks to Amazon.com and their Featured Merchants. In order to off-load some ware and tare on my V15 I purchased this M97 cartridge and found it to track as well with a sound quality that is indistinguishable, listening, except when using a SHURE Test LP album with analysis software on my computer to determine frequency response. On already worn LP's the Dynamic Stabilizer brush is a fantastic component to the M97 allowing the cartridge to track better then the even the V15 on my old roller coaster (warped) albums. Lastly the M97 cartridge uses an aluminum mounting block to attach the cartridge to the head-shell of the turntable, another nice feature, - no long screws required as with my V15 cartridge making less tone arm mass and again aiding better tracking. I did wait a little longer for delivery - because of demand for these cartridges (with the merchant) but at the price, quality (tracking and tonal) it was "Well worth the wait". And again thanks to Amazon.com and their Feature Merchant program, also, "The Best Bang for my buck".

"I'm really happy w this cartridge", I love this cartridge. The lint guard makes for a perfectly soft landing on the surface of the record, because it hangs down just below the needle, and then as the cartridge hits the record, the lint brush touches first, and then softly retracts until the needle hits. It's really a great design. And the cartridge sounds great too. The perfect compliment to my Technics SL1200.

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"nice sounding cartridge", I compare this cartridge to a V-15 type 4. At first I thought there was an audible difference. But then I edited together segments from one song played on a Technics SL-1200 MK2 turntable alternating which cartridge was used. Then I had trouble telling them apart by sound alone.

"Shure Magnetic Photo Cartridge", This is an excellent cartridge for those who want to listen to music on an expensive turntable and are interested on classical music. This is not a Disc Jockey Type Needle.