Another LEGENDARY DJ product discontinued...

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Posted by DjWoody on Jan-17-2013 02:47:

Another LEGENDARY DJ product discontinued...

Yeap. Shure discontinued their world famous M44-7 needles.

It's a SAD day in the DJ world... Shure has discontinued the M44-7 cartridges.

http://www.shure.com/americas/produ...-record-needles

Posted by Juan Paulino on Jan-17-2013 03:19:

Good, they sucked anyway.

Posted by discobiscuit on Jan-17-2013 05:42:

Wtf this is horrible

Posted by discobiscuit on Jan-17-2013 05:57:

http://shure.custhelp.com/app/answe...vLW5CZkN1Z2w%3D

Nm its just the one mounted on technics headshell m44-7-h

Phew!

Posted by Brandt Slater on Jan-17-2013 09:49:

quote:
Originally posted by discobiscuit
http://shure.custhelp.com/app/answe...vLW5CZkN1Z2w%3D

Nm its just the one mounted on technics headshell m44-7-h

Phew!

For now. I'm sure the M44-7 isn't too far behind.

Posted by DjWoody on Jan-17-2013 16:34:

Here's an email I got from Shure this morning. Disco is right.

"Jesse,

Sorry for the confusion, but it's only the M44-7-H version that ships with the headshell. The standard M44-7 is still available.

Sincerely,

Chris Siuty
Shure Inc"

Posted by DizkokidD on Jan-17-2013 17:57:

Haha their stock was about to rise. I just ordered 2 since I needed new ones.

Posted by discobiscuit on Jan-17-2013 21:47:

quote:
Originally posted by DizkokidD
Haha their stock was about to rise. I just ordered 2 since I needed new ones.

Lol

Posted by Brandt Slater on Jan-18-2013 00:48:

quote:
Originally posted by DjWoody
Here's an email I got from Shure this morning. Disco is right.

"Jesse,

Sorry for the confusion, but it's only the M44-7-H version that ships with the headshell. The standard M44-7 is still available.

Sincerely,

Chris Siuty
Shure Inc"

Two keywords. Still available. Which could mean the 44-7 retiring soon. Remember how Technics was only going to retire the MK-2...

Posted by DJ RANN on Jan-24-2013 02:02:

quote:
Originally posted by Brandt Slater
Two keywords. Still available. Which could mean the 44-7 retiring soon. Remember how Technics was only going to retire the MK-2...

I doubt it. The difference is that technics made basically the same model for over 30 years and peaked in terms of sales in the last 25. That means literally millions of decks, that also happen to be very difficult to break.

The needles are a consumable and while there are still several million tunrtables in use, every day, Shure will have a market. I understand why the discontinued the headshell version, as hardly anyone uses them and the decks which come with the headshell are no longer in production.

Posted by Dykes_on_Jay on Jan-24-2013 04:37:

Ortofon.

Posted by Juan Paulino on Jan-25-2013 17:13:

Yes, get ortofon.

Posted by itsamemario on Jan-25-2013 17:50:

I'm pretty sure it was these I had sitting on my tt's before some guy stole them because I took a picture of his girlfriend who had fallen asleep next to my friend who was, also sleeping, wearing pink kanye shades and a sequin dress that had a huge boner poking out of it.
I really should try to get those back lol.

Posted by DJ RANN on Jan-25-2013 19:44:

quote:
Originally posted by itsamemario

These have pride of place on my mk5g's.

And I don't know what parties you go to alfi but mates wearing sequin dresses with giant boners poking out of them is a little leftfield.

Posted by Juan Paulino on Jan-26-2013 15:41:

I use these with my setup.