Hi oldhvymec and others.
All very well to mute after every side if you have a mute switch.
But if you have to down the volume pot and then up it again every 20 minutes you will soon wear it out. After all many get noisy after 20 years of normal use (i.e not often touching it, muting at end of a session).
At that rate you could even wear out a mute switch, although this is much cheaper to replace than a pair of high quality pots.
I once got the static 'pop' and cured it with a Zerostat aimed at mat and turntable. I haven't had it since so am safe to leave the volume up.
I flipped my first record in about 1962 and I've used valve pre-amps since the mid-70s. I leave the volume where it is and have never had any problems, certainly not with blowing tweeters every month or two. I don't get 'pops'.
Leave fetish to the fetishists.
All very well to mute after every side if you have a mute switch.
But if you have to down the volume pot and then up it again every 20 minutes you will soon wear it out. After all many get noisy after 20 years of normal use (i.e not often touching it, muting at end of a session).
At that rate you could even wear out a mute switch, although this is much cheaper to replace than a pair of high quality pots.
I once got the static 'pop' and cured it with a Zerostat aimed at mat and turntable. I haven't had it since so am safe to leave the volume up.
I flipped my first record in about 1962 and I've used valve pre-amps since the mid-70s. I leave the volume where it is and have never had any problems, certainly not with blowing tweeters every month or two. I don't get 'pops'.
Leave fetish to the fetishists.