superb sound quality I believe reflects many iterative improvements over time

It reveals subtle details I didn't hear in my old Signet cartridge, and the audio quality on a new quality pressing is really impressive.

All in all very good sound quality; it might have a bit more bass - therefor only 4 of the five stars

Only virgin territory of your records below the surface is traced and reproduced with astonishing accuracy

This improves high freqency tracing accuracy but does make vertical tracking angle more critical than an elliptical cartridge

It has a huge threshold over background noise, excellent channel separation, very accurate detail and nice tonal accuracy throughout its range

MY SHORT REVIEW:If you have an old 10xx or 12xx series Dual turntable, you’ll likely LOVE this cart

I bought it after seeing an excellent review for the no longer available AT440MLA.

Finally started looking into cartridges other then the stock cartridge that came with it and saw good reviews for this one

It brings your old vinyl records back with incredible fidelity across the entire audible spectrum

Better fidelity: The AT440MLB did bring out more detail out of my one worn-out (maybe badly pressed?

worn out record from the 60s with a good amount of crackles that I naively thought would go away with a higher fidelity cartridge like the AT440MLB, to find out that everything was much brighter, including the crackles

The sound is gorgeous—well balanced and crisp—and the cart holds up to just about anything (although not, it turns out, to my neighbor's six-year-old son, who decided to make the AR "do the spinny," thereby ruining the previous AT440

Good sound and tone balanced

an Audio Technica LP120 turntable and was very disappointed with the unrelenting distortion and sibilance from the highly-praised AT95e cartridge/stylus

The incremental sound quality on better cartridges / styli is not that great compared to the high additional cost

The only downside of this great stylus is that it picks up gunk and dust very quickly

very good price; fast shipping and this cartridge is superb!Really brings out every nuance in the albums

I wholeheartedly embrace and endorse this cartridge (and its low price) without any reservations whatsoever

I decided to upgrade when I found I can't get an original stylus for my old cartridge for a reasonable price

It very well might be exaggerating the bass response for a better effect in a club

And I think it's important to consider "stronger" bass response versus "accurate"

Worth the price!Also, some people say that dj needles will have a better bass response compared to an audiophile cart like the AT440MLb

For the price and everything else remaining equal, the AT440MLB has a noticeable better soundstage and frequency response to my layman's ears

For me, knowing that I'm doing even and minimal wear to my precious records was enough for me to make the jump to this cart

This stylus gets way down in the groove where all my prior stylus's never touched which is the major contributing factor of why those old records sound like new again.

I just recorded some old grand funk records on to maxell UDXL II , it's like getting a digital remastered

Any micro-linear stylus will dredge up old crud out of dirty record grooves

I also clean all my records when possible with the excellent cheap-skate Disc Doctor hand-scrubber system and it makes a HUGE improvement in used vinyl

The thing about this cart that has me overlooking the slight top-end boost (or "enhanced definition of the treble frequencies") is the microline stylus - tracks amazingly well - no more IGD

HUGE DYNAMIC RANGE “PUNCH”—This cart has less total signal level than the Grado “moving iron” carts above (4mv vs. 5 mv) but the perceived bite or attack of horns and snare drums is so much more present and “real” to me with this cartridge, much more so than many XRCD and SACD files I play with a top-end studio DAC

On records that are properly mastered and pressed, this cart will enhance the top end and make it sound "sweeter", not necessarily "brighter"

Don't believe the reviews that state that the cart is thin or lacks low end.

The AT440MLb extracts ALL of the virgin groove info (surface area never touched by the old heavy turntable arms and elliptical/round needles of yore).• CLARITY AND INNER DETAIL

It has a huge threshold over background noise, excellent channel separation, very accurate detail and nice tonal accuracy throughout its range

Dynamic punch and “inner detail”: exciting and lively,

Better fidelity: The AT440MLB did bring out more detail out of my one worn-out (maybe badly pressed?

The 400MLb gets deeper into the groove to pick up the sound better, and has less inner groove distortion.

A lot of records suffered from the dreaded inner groove distortion, not all, but many

To my ears, the sound between the 440MLa and 440MLb is indistinguishable: both have a bright, slightly "punchy" sound, but both also eliminate that dreaded IGD (inner groove distortion)

The AT100E suffers from the dreaded IGD (inner groove distortion) that most lower-end carts do

My experience with this cart (anecdotal of course, your mileage may vary):• INNER GROOVE DISTORTION (IGD