When will we ever hear turntables demoed fairly?

He had watched me put the cartridge on.

I started setting up tables in 1961 and it was always difficult. Martin Colloms once set two up for comparsion with identical MM cartridges and found that they did not sound the same. He finally had to change the stylus every time which destroyed any fast AB.

When I was a dealer I put a brand new cartridge on for a demo. He liked it but wanted one new in the box. I told to forget it and he finally took the demo. You would not believe the crap honest dealers have to go through. I once had someone I knew but who had bought it in Hong Kong and couldn't get it to work. I told him 4 times that he probably had the tape monitor switch on but he would not go check it. He finally did and of course it was the problem. This was early on Sat morning. This was mild compared to some. Like the guy who borrowed some expensive speakers and returned them when I wasn't there by throwing them through the through the door. And another who left a turntable on the porch when I was gone.