Yes, I love stories, but I need a drink, a cigar (just to do my best George Burns) and to wheeze and point off somewhere into the distance if I am to respond with a story...usually prefaced with "I remember when"...etc.
And yes, the store I was at did "cartridge clinics"...sold a lot of M-91ed, V15 Type-IIIIIII-Mk2+ and ADC XLM during those clinics. All joking aside, Shure had a cartridge made for old timers with a collection of 78rpm records that were quite good and gave those customers a great deal of pleasure. When delivering a system to a customer with a large 78 collection, I set up the table he played a few and I was surprised at how good they sounded...yes, surface noise but decent fidelity and to the point you could hear subtle sounds.
And yes, the store I was at did "cartridge clinics"...sold a lot of M-91ed, V15 Type-IIIIIII-Mk2+ and ADC XLM during those clinics. All joking aside, Shure had a cartridge made for old timers with a collection of 78rpm records that were quite good and gave those customers a great deal of pleasure. When delivering a system to a customer with a large 78 collection, I set up the table he played a few and I was surprised at how good they sounded...yes, surface noise but decent fidelity and to the point you could hear subtle sounds.