The first announcement of the Shure M44-7
That’s a neat little piece of history there.
yeah too bad the picture quality is such shit - not sure why that happened; it looks fine on my computer and I didn’t compress it before uploading. It’s a png file maybe that’s the problem… Anyway I dug this up after reading this – well worth the look; lots of great history in here:
$44.50 - that was a lot for a cartridge in 1963. Wonder what headshells cost then…