My old cartridge is so old it finally just broke and fell apart, and there's nowhere in town that sells good ones, so I'm limping along with a very, very bad stanton cartridge. I need a new one, but I can't spend any more than $150 and would LIKE to spend around $100. I wish I could spend more...

I just bought a pair of ATH-EW9's and will be ordering some kind of large open phones (Beyer 440's, 660's, or AKG K501's, probably) soon, and then will be pretty set for a while for phones. And I bought a MisterX Mint amp. But then I decided I needed a project, and started looking around the...

Well, my ATH-EW9's arrived yesterday. I bought them at warehouse123.com, excellent service, $175. Oh, and they threw in three nice TDK minidisks. They are also available at audiocubes.com for $199 (I think) and Audio-Technica's Singapore site for something like $151 but with more expensive...