[QUOTE=Resident Loser]...it wasn't Shure...I surely did...Pickering, eh...I thought they were a higher level cart and that nearly everything came e/w lower echelon Shure...oh well... QUOTE]


Back in the 60's and 70's, a Garrard/Dual/Miracord changer came with a choice of cartridges for one cent over the list price of the turntable (that may have seemed like a terrific deal, but considering the changer alone would often sell at a 20% discount, as did the cartridge, the one cent "special" really wan't that special after all). The choices were from a comparably priced Shure, Pickering or Empire. None of us liked anything from Empire, and Shure models were very delicate, so we pushed Pickering. We also got paid more to sell Pickering, so that may certainly have been an inititiative, ya' think?