Advice regarding turntable, cartridge, and needle

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cuthza

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I have a Kenwood KD-22R turntable with a cartridge and needle as shown in the picture. The turntable works fine except for the auto return giving some issues every now and again which I will have looked at.

My question is about this cartridge and stylus. I'm getting quite a 'bassy' sound out of the records lacking in detail, could this be because of the old cartridge and / or needle?

I'm also worried that the needle may be potentially damaging to my records.

Could I get some advice regarding replacing the needle or cartridge or both and where I should source a replacement from, if any? My budget is limited so preferably nothing too pricy.

Pics below.

https://imgur.com/a/brdf1
 
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