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In Reply to: Re: Has anyone else seen the new Shelter 201 moving magnet? posted by Waynefi on April 17, 2007 at 14:15:13:
for uncovering this type of stuff. I thought it looked familiar. They didn't give you any hooey and say "sure it may LOOK like a Pearl, but we can assure you it'll sound better because we sprinkled it with some magic Shelter dust". Wouldn't it be funny if the 201 label was actually a little sticker you could tear off. Someone should whip up a pic in photoshop of a Pearl with a 201 'label' half peeling off. :-) If I have some time later tonight i'll do it.
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I figured it could not be anything great. Anything from Shelter for $200? That's enough right there. The new Ortofon M2 Blue is the same price and the M2 is a completely new, ground up design that supposedly took two years to develop. I think we'll see new models coming along more often from others. That's refreshing because most of the available cartridges are old designs.
I think the Pearl has a bonded stylus. Considering that even the Shure 97 and A-T 120 and 440 models have nude styli, there is no excuse for that in a $200 cartridge.
The fact that Shelter was even interested in offering such an inexpensive cartridge is indicative of a very healthy vinyl resurgence, I think.
or maybe they are testing the bottom p;rice range because there are not takers for the top end. Meaning a sag in sales. Meaning no resergence.Who knows, but I don't think this is "healthy" for them to be scamming us. Smells of desperation. I'd rather think that than that they all went cynical. How can we trust a company that does something like that?
I think the market for super expensive cartridges is tiny at best. The many good reasonably priced models are hard to beat at any price.
Yeah I'm suspicious of companies that price things too high. I'm not sure if it is ignorance or greed!
Some "High End" outfits have been scamming us for a long time.ClearAudio comes immediately to mind. Acoustech is another with their $60 Canrong stylus force scale marked up to $180.
Some outfits just can't get any audiophile respect for doing things on the level (you know, Technics, Shure, AT etc.). Reasonable prices with minimal hype must not sell is all I can figure.
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Al G
Born To Tinker!
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