Great clarity, and easy enough to assemble with the included instructions

The Sound clarity is AMAZING on clean mint records, but HORRIBLE on old worn dj records and they skip horribly and both worn and mint records

THE CLARITY IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING , and the DAM needle keeps skipping randomly thru out the album, for no apparent reasonI grew up on the stanton 500's 505s and

The Sound clarity is AMAZING on clean mint records, but HORRIBLE on old worn dj records and they skip horribly and both worn and mint records

Yet at the top end, the clarity is brilliant

hence the reason i chose these, i probably should of got the m44-7, but ever one says the clarity on those are not good

It seems to work well with rock/pop/jazz/R&B from the '50s/'60s/'70s

If you want your albums from the 50s through the 70s to sound nice, warm, and analog-y, this is your cartridge