Just to make your feel better...
i had saved for a long time to buy a big upgrade in my turntable - found a Transrotor Fat Bob S and the owner “threw in” a brand new Benz Micro Ebony cartridge for very little money. That cartridge was a far better cartridge than I could normally afford so I was very chuffed. Had to spend at least a month constructing a new rack space and isolation platform until I could finally even set it up. Just before I left on a vacation, the night before, I got my first brief listen to the new set up and was in heaven.
Came home from vacation all ready to have some real time with the new vinyl rig, went to put on a record and...noticed the cartridge was now hanging off the arm at some crazy odd angle!! What the possible f#ck????
How??? Why???
Turned out the cleaning lady had made a visit while we were gone.
I talked to her and she said, yeah she was cleaning around that big new shiny thing, reached over and heard a “big bang” then noticed “that skinny silver part was hanging off now.” Of course a cloth she was carrying had hooked on the end of the arm whipping it off and dislodging the cartridge.
You wanna talk heartbreak!
All said and done, fortunately the cartridge seemed to have survived. The arm..not as much.
As anyone with a nice turntable knows, cleaning staff are The Antichrist to turntables.
i had saved for a long time to buy a big upgrade in my turntable - found a Transrotor Fat Bob S and the owner “threw in” a brand new Benz Micro Ebony cartridge for very little money. That cartridge was a far better cartridge than I could normally afford so I was very chuffed. Had to spend at least a month constructing a new rack space and isolation platform until I could finally even set it up. Just before I left on a vacation, the night before, I got my first brief listen to the new set up and was in heaven.
Came home from vacation all ready to have some real time with the new vinyl rig, went to put on a record and...noticed the cartridge was now hanging off the arm at some crazy odd angle!! What the possible f#ck????
How??? Why???
Turned out the cleaning lady had made a visit while we were gone.
I talked to her and she said, yeah she was cleaning around that big new shiny thing, reached over and heard a “big bang” then noticed “that skinny silver part was hanging off now.” Of course a cloth she was carrying had hooked on the end of the arm whipping it off and dislodging the cartridge.
You wanna talk heartbreak!
All said and done, fortunately the cartridge seemed to have survived. The arm..not as much.
As anyone with a nice turntable knows, cleaning staff are The Antichrist to turntables.