Doug,
That’s a great website and I bookmarked it. The prices of those arms and others like Rega and Jelco are all quite reasonable. I’ve had my Graham arm with extra armwand since the early 1990s. No clue what I paid for it.
Nick
nick,
re: great site - i suspect you're referring to the adhuntr site, not the esoteric site. i'd say it's pretty evil, actually!
re: the graham tonearm + extra wand, i suspect it cost a bit more than any of those empires; probably more than any two of them...
doug s.
It wouldn't surprise me if the extra graham wand alone cost more than one of those Empires.
BTW those pictures really brought back memories. I grew up only a few miles away from the Empire factory.
And the now that I think about it the US offices of BIC were only a few moles in another direction and HQ of the US Thorens distributor was only two blocks from my high school.
Maybe this explains some of my life long obsession with LPs and TTs.