C A R T R I D G E S

Here, at The Turntable Factory, we're proud to be a FACTORY AUTHORIZED DEALER for Grado, Ortofon and Shure products!

Here's our selling policy for all these fine products:

We generally do NOT sell cartridges or stylii unless we are doing a repair of a turntable, or are selling one. We do make some exceptions, such as if you are buying a headshell or cartridge mount from us.

We do NOT sell UNDER the manufacturer's "Minimum Advertised Price" There are NO exceptions to this rule.

We do not sell out of the United States. The exception here is, again.. if we are doing a repair or selling a turntable... or selling a headshell.

We do NOT sell cartridges or stylii on-line or at on-line auctions. The exception here is that we will occasionally sell a new, old stock VINTAGE cartridge or stylus in an on-line auction, if it's something "special".

Our business is turntables, we carry cartridges as an accomodation to our customers. We do keep a list of Factory Authorized Dealers who sell cartridges on the retail level, and would be happy to provide anyone with that information.

We are authorized to carry a manufacturer's full-line of cartridges, but we usually stock the most popular and the ones that we feel give the best value for the money. We recommend cartridges that are best suited to the turntable in question, the application, the type and condition of records, the type & genre of music, plus anything else that will factor into the equation.

We usually stock the entire Prestige line, both in standard 1/2" mount and "P" mount.

We mostly carry the lower end Super OM- series in both the standard 1/2" mount and "P" mount configurations. We also stock the Dual ULM-DN series stylii.

Here, we carry the SC35C for DJ's (in MY opinion, after being a DJ myself for 30 years, there is NO finer cartridge for the DJ application than the SC35C!!). we also stock the "White Label" DJ cartridges. For home use, we stock the M25C and the M97xE. We also stock the M92E "P" mount cartridge. We stock upgrade OEM stylii for those who need a "P" mount and prefer a higher-end Shure product.

We stock a complete line of Shure replacement stylii for both current and vintage Shure cartridges.

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For customers that have a vintage turntable and would be interested in a vintage NEW, OLD STOCK cartridge for your machine, click on the picture below:

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We also stock some "ceramic" type cartridges for those applications where a high-output cartridge is necessary. As a rule, ceramic cartridges have "flip-over" stylii for LP and 78. They also do NOT have the sound quality of the "magnetic" type cartridges, such as those above.

For those who need a high-output cartridge (either for input to a computer or input into a system where there are only "auxilliary" inputs), we do carry a "phono pre-amp" which will allow you to use a magnetic cartridge in those applications.

We do NOT sell any cartridges where we and/or the manufacturer doesn't have a good supply of replacement stylii! Also, we do NOT sell "aftermarket" or "generic" stylii. ALL of our replacement stylii are MADE BY THE MANUFACTURER OF THE CARTRIDGE IN QUESTION!!