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From: wjm@whuxl.UUCP (MITCHELL)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: RE: stylus wear
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Date: Sun, 15-Jul-84 17:46:14 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 15 17:46:14 1984
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<gulp>
In reply to Mark's question:
Its possible for a stylus to show some wear at 220 hours, although not that
common.  <Caveat - improper tracking force can cause premature stylus wear as
well as record damage - too light is generally more damaging to records (due to
mistracking) than too heavy>   The conventional wisdom is that a stylus should
be inspected after 300 hours of use and every 100 hours thereafter and that
the expected life is 500-750 hours.  If you don't have a timer on your turntable
one conservative rule of thumb is that a classical LP side runs 25-30 minutes,
and a popular LP side is 15-20 mins, so I count the number of sides played and
divide by 2, to get hours of use (I listen to mostly classical records).
Bill Mitchell (whuxl!wjm)