for what it's worth, while I'm reading about subjects that long ago faded from thought & memory...

When I was about 21 and still had acute youthful full frequency hearing
my Dad lashed out some of his hard earned redundancy money
on a rega planar 3 turntable and a couple of cartridges
to cheer himself up after the local factory was closed down due to management & ownership incompetentcy.

At the time, the UK serious Hi Fi market was divided between the traditional warm stodgy dark British reference sound,
and the newly arriving bright harsh detailed revealing Japanese rival tones..

I needed to mass copy a large part of my LP collection to TDK SA90 tapes
to see me through 3 years away returning to education to do a degree.

I tried his British Rega cartridge and just did not think much of its dark woody boomy tones.
But instantly liked the other more expensive import cartridge
[can't remember brand name - Australian manufactured ??.. "Elite" perhaps ..???]
which was perfectly crystal clear and superbly detailed.

In that post 60's popular affordable Hi Fi boom era, when dark versus bright LP tonality was a major divisive issue
in sound production and reproduction aethsthetic 'philosophising',
it is iteresting to consider just how much this might have informed personal creative principles and deliberate EQ choices
for any Leader recordings 'house style'.
Even if his recording equipment was modern enough to capture bright high end detail ???

These days, I can't tolerate too much treble, it hurts & distorts my ageing fragile eardrums..