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yea guys but your forgetting that the stylus is a diamond, and diamonds are very expensive. Granted the size they use for a stylus tip is so small, there isn't much real value to it, but they are still cut to a precise angle and shape, and that adds to the expense. Very expensive machines are needed to do the cutting. The cartridge isn't really anything to expensive, but they do have magnetics and some pretty precise engineering is involved still to make them. There is also not as huge market for needles anymore, just the DJ market and hi-fi buffs, and not being so plentiful thats how they can charge a decent amount for them because we are willing to pay those prices and there not made in huge quantities
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