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It sucks to face the end of good stuff you like ...
Posted by ToddM on August 28, 2020 at 07:22:19:
.. but it may be time to get a new cart. I've been going thru my collection/hoard lately, rotating them in and out to see if I still like them, etc. I've been finding that I DO still like most or all of them but getting the best performance with the best stylus for some of them is going to be expensive. The Pickerings/Stantons (as one example) were just flat-out great back in the day, woefully underappreciated, but their stylus quality fell off pretty steeply after the mid-80's (maybe a bit later?), and so it's either pay out when you can find a reasonably good bet on rapidly-dwindling NOS, or go aftermarket. The prices are in line what I'd pay for a new daily driver ($2-300, tops, more like $100-150 if it gets great reviews), and there are current production styli that you can get for backups. Then you have to look down the road and figure out what to do when *this* one goes bad ... It's really a question of whether you're a collector or a user - I'm surprised to find that I'm maybe not as much of a collector as I would have thought.