Fell asleep while TT was running with ortodoncia black cartridge!


After a few ahem adult beverages fell asleep for approx 2 hours while my system was on and I was playing vinyl. Wondering if I screwed up my 2m black cartridge or not. Feeling terrible about it. I have the manual mmf 5.1 turntable so was sitting there for all that time. Any thoughts from all the analog gurus out there? Is my stylus still ok?
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Showing 1 response by teo_audio

no biggie. no problem. no worse than playing that same amount of time as records.

It's when the turntable is bounced and the stylus jumps up on the label part. That’s when it becomes a problem.

I’ve had that happen. When I had no money, like really poor, and the music was all that helped me get by.

I had a linear tracking maplenoll turntable on a wall mount.

I’d accidentally left the stylus on the dead wax grooves...and then went outside, but I had to slam the door, due to how sticky it was. It bounced, all right.....

That cost me a brand new Ortofon MC30 Super.

came back in a few hours later, no more stylus. Snapped it off on the eaten away paper label.