Bill, I wonder if you could elaborate on the Cadenza being 'stark'.
I have heard cartridges from Ortofon that I thought were a little bit shall we say... less than totally resolving. By this, I thought that their portrayal of steel brushes and some other high freq effects was less than realistic.(Example,seemingly loosing resolution on the 'steelness' of the brush on the cymbal). BTW, I put the new A95 in this category, although due to the age of the the particular cartridge I heard, could be attributed to having not broken in completely or perhaps not??
