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RE: Who Ever Got A One Cent Cartridge

Posted by Salectric (A) on September 26, 2017 at 13:07:24

In Reply to: Who Ever Got A One Cent Cartridge posted by Doug G. on September 25, 2017 at 15:17:32:

I bought an AR-XA turntable in 1969 and paid an extra $0.01 for a Grado XTR. The cartridge itself had a list price of $9.95! I am not as certain about the AR but I think its list price was $78 or perhaps $87. And this was from a brick and mortar store (was there any other kind?) only a mile from my house.

That sounds like a great deal in today's dollars, but then the minimum wage was $1.40 or so.

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