[BC] The economy and used gear

[Peter Smerdon]

It depends on whose cartridges you were using.

Way back then ('70's-'80's) we changed up from Shure M44 cartridges to 
Stanton 680's.
With the Shures we were regularly changing stylii, due to bent 
cantilevers, and the occasional missing tip.
With the Stantons I never saw a bent cantilever. We had to watch out for 
stylus wear (not very frequent) - the Shure's never lasted long enough 
to suffer tip wear.

The Stantons paid for themselves in a few months.

Regards,
Peter Smerdon.

Powell Way wrote:
> Amazing, that at WKDK we got a good bit better stylus life than 
> that...... we were careful enough and we'd get killed if we broke them 
> all the time.
> 
> Powell
> 
> On Jul 16, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Jerry Mathis wrote:
>>  And not to mention the styli which needed changing almost weekly.