The vinyl is a resilient media, and will recover well from small, damped impacts like a cueing drop from a normal cueing lever.
Cueing it up...
Since analog is an analogy, I've developed a mental picture when cueing up on a rotating record. And that is the film we've seen of airliners landing, and those bazillion-ply tires instantly accelerating from zero to 200 mph, and, I've heard, leaving something like 20+ pounds of rubber on the runway in a cloud of smoke.
My gut tells me that rotating cue-up isn't so cool, enforced by how noisy most lead-in grooves are, and a lot of spacing grooves between tracks.
What do you do - rotating or standstill - and is this overly anal(og)?
My gut tells me that rotating cue-up isn't so cool, enforced by how noisy most lead-in grooves are, and a lot of spacing grooves between tracks.
What do you do - rotating or standstill - and is this overly anal(og)?