The word is out among audio engineers, but is a little slow getting to the average audiophile; the quality of the capacitors in the output stage of your preamp or the input stage of your amplifier is one of the major determining factors of the sound quality.
I have done four upgrades to my amplifier input stage over 20 years; from high quality electrolytics to MIT Multicaps (much better) to TRT Infinicaps (better yet) to TRT Dynamicaps (absolutely superb).

Does anyone have any suggestions on a good cartridge? I don't want to spend more than 150.00. Thank you

Aloha,

I've been pondering Keith Howard's interesting article and I think I've got my own answer:

There is such a thing as euphonic distortion - as evidenced by the positive subjective effects of those Musical Fidelity Tube Buffers that people like.

I have one, but I thought it took away detail in my system. It did "change" the sound, though. No DBT failure there.

It now awaits a trial in the computer system - I'm curious to see what it may do for a different set-up environment.

Over the years, with much experimenting and listening, I have found that a very major part of amplifier sound quality is directly due to the input coupling capacitors used. This is equally true for the output coupling capacitors of the preamp. Certainly the designer of the circuitry must do the job properly, but given that this is accomplished, and given that the amplifier has adequate power and power-supply stability to do the job at hand, the purity of the sound is very dependent on the coupling capacitors used.

Some of my audiophile friends have told me that I can get a great deal by ordering speakers factory direct online as opposed to buying through a hi-fi audio shop. With this advice in mind, I have (temporarily, perhaps) suspended my quest for a pair of Dynaudio Contour S5.4's and tried to dig up some good deals on the information highway...