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What's the market these days for NOS 70's/80's cartridges and/or tonearms?

I've noticed the market has seemed to change with respect to a lot of vintage gear.  However, it used to be that certain vintage gear, especially if NOS, such as the Pickering, Shure, Stanton cart's and perhaps SME tonearms never went down.  I'm getting some indication that this may no longer be the case?   Yet, recent searches hasn't turned up any useful data.  Any ideas on market or sources to determine the market?
nolojunko
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best-groove
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Keep your fairy tales about superiority of modern high-end gear for those who prefer digital, this is the only field where progress is so obvious.
Maybe....there would also be discussion in this field; several audiophiles in the world after trying the best of today's digital are looking for the top converters of the 90s that in their opinion sound better. A return to the origins.
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chakster
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I've heard about it too. I think we're all using computers and we learned quickly for how long you can use anything digital until there is an upgrade in software and if your software is not up to date you can't use it properly any longer. In 5-10 years digital equipment goes to museum and new gear gives us more everything. This is progress for sure.

If someone will say this about analog he must be crazy.   
nolojunko OP
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I'm going to list the items for sale on U.S. Audio Mart instead of Audiogon. . . for all the good reasons noted.  Thanks much for the feedback on my post.
ebm
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Sorry become a millionaire on resale maybe I'm wrong but who really cares not me.
nolojunko OP
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EBM certainly doesn't seem to offer anything edifying to the conversation.  The dumb comments likely produce the opposite.  I'm outta here.  Talk to the hand.
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