What’s more I couldn’t believe that they would additionally stop manufacture of the stylus immediately. Often stylus will be phased out over a longer period. Since I bought Whitelabels just over a year ago, and loved the sound, I wasn’t ready for them to become a pair of pretty bricks.
I started searching for replacement styli and couldn’t find any stock at the usual outlets. I emailed Shure and they said that their remaining stock in the U.S. was soon going to be distributed Worldwide, and once that was complete that would be it!
I’ve managed to source some and have bought 8. I don’t use my decks that often, but don’t want to move to Ortofon. I’ve used a few cartridges in my time, but none come close to the Whitelabel’s sound.
I realise there are a lot of Shure fans out there. Seems pretty quiet on the issue here. Much panic buying going on?
I just recently bought an MC 97xe for listening. And it looks like when that stylus dies, it’ll be going in the trash. Boo.
I’ll just switch to Ortofon. I don’t really care that much and not at all for DJing. But it’s still annoying.
I’m also thinking it might be time to dump my 1200s. I have no desire to DJ with them, and I could probably make some money replacing them with a budget hifi deck, since all I do with them is occasionally listen to vinyl anyway.
Solution: live sound and studio peeps entirely boycott Shure until they realize this move doesn’t slightly improve their bottom line. F—ing accountants and marketing dept getting too much power in a company.
Which concordes did you try? I have been more than satisfied with my OMS Pro’s. THey replaced my M44-7’s as my regular gig stylii. I can’t speak for the entire line of MK2’s, but the Concorde Mix MK2’s are pretty on point. Only thing i didn’t like was the elongated breaking in period.
I jumped on getting a spare whitelabel (now have two spares) and 3 N44-7 from Thomann in Germany when to got a restock. My budget didn’t allow me to buy more at that time.
Strangely enough they still have the cartridges for the G44-7 and M44-7.
My beloved whitelabel starting skipping over the weekend and i fear that i may need a new stylus but after reading comments here, it looks like they might be hard to get. I’ll be gutted if i can’t use them anymore as they were such a cool looking cart. Have emailed Shure to see what they say but it’s not looking good ..
