[Vision2020] New York Audio Show 2013: Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy's "Classic Album Sundays"

[Ted Moffett]

I purchased that Empire 398 turntable in 1967, and the inflation calculator
you used shows if it cost $500 in 2012, it would be about $73 in 1967... I
recall a price over $100... This source indicates at least one version of
this turntable selling for $175 in the 1960s:
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=278075

The calculator show this equates to $1187 from 1967 to 2012.

The $500 price of that May 2013 Ebay listing for this turntable may be way
under priced... Or maybe it needed refurbishing...

Consider this Ebay listing, that just ended July 15, 2013, with extensive
information on the specifications of the turntable, where the winning bid
was US $1,525.00... The phono cartridge also needs to be considered in the
price...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Empire-Troubadour-398-Vintage-Turntable-w-888-SE-Cartridge-980-Tonearm-Gold-Tone-/161060648596?nma=true&si=RJoqRF%252Bwmo%252B09gVqjDZKhwz3Cmc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

>  On 7/16/2013 5:03 PM, Ted Moffett wrote:
>
>  Well, no doubt the whole list is spell bound by this subject, but I
> could not believe what I just found with a quick search for "empire
> turntable cartridge 1960s" to see if I could find a reference to the
> turntable I had while a student at Moscow High in the 1960s...
>
>  This May 2013 Ebay listing, for 500 dollars, if you can believe it, looks
> exactly like the turntable I had!  I did not pay 500 dollars for it in the
> 1960s!  Much less... Note belt riding on the outside of the platter:<http://www.ebay.com/itm/1960s-Vintage-Empire-398-Turntable-w-h-Satin-Gold-Finish-Pickering-Cartridge-/130900234504?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item1e7a431108&nma=true&si=R53eSaQK9g4wGCXrwBUDYC8xzcQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557>
>
>
> Considering only Consumer Price Index changes, $500.00 in 2012 dollars is
> the equivalent of $69.89 in 1965 dollars.
>
> Would you like to do this or other calculations yourself?  Here's the
> URL:  http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
>
>
> Ken
>
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