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Dibstar
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 Posted - 2004/05/11 : 11:19:04
How can you tell when your cartridge is well and truly knackered - I am pretty sure that my stylus is duff as sound quality of my vinyl has recently been getting worse and worse - and I would like to know also what people think of the shure whitelabel cartridges and if they are ok (and if not which cartridges have leat wear on the vinyl)
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Shaker
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 Posted - 2004/05/11 : 11:21:11
lol the sound quality is crap and it crackles all the time and the crackling gets worse as when the needle gets worse. Thats what happened to mine 
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tizers_revenge
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Ireland
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Posted - 2004/05/15 : 13:48:08
im really stingy wit my stylus i wait till there is f all left on them b4 i change them but u can tell they r fd when u put the arm on a rec n it just slides to the end. the needle should b nice n pointy if u feel them n they feel round n soft (cant blieve im talking like this bout a damn needle) u need nu 1s.
im never of my turns n i think iv changed my stylus once in about 3 years.
i just use a reg stanton 500. i suppose there r ones out there that u get get much better audio from but they r too dear...4 me ne way!
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Garry T
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Posted - 2004/05/22 : 03:04:50
yeah have to agree from my experience Stanton do make very robust needles and at a great price.
I have used Stantons a few times and had no complaints.
One thing about letting needles wear too far past there life span,if you value your vinyl,change them
Shure are good for not putting too much pressure on your grooves,but are still weighted nice,esp for scratching as well,
no infact the m447 is awesome for scratching or quick movements with vinyl.Have a pretty good frequency range too.
Not shure (lol) i have seen the white one's 
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kernel scurry
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United States
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Posted - 2004/05/25 : 03:56:15
I've got ortofon concordes, they will get very weak and I'll have to turn the gain up when they start to go bad... also, one channel will come through louder than the other and I'll have to pan it accordingly.
Never owned stantions, but from people who have, they seem to last a really long time, they also seem to be pretty loud compared to others.
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