...to damage a record is to play it back with a worn or damaged cartridge. A stylus that is worn is believed to have burnished, flat facets with sharp corners
...n a record, and are evenly distributed through loud and soft passages, the stylus may be suspected.
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==Tonearm, Cartridge and Stylus==
===Stylus Wear===
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...sories, including a [[record cleaning machine]], [[dry cleaning brush]], [[stylus cleaner]], etc.
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...ylus]] (usually diamond) onto the record's groove. The groove vibrates the stylus, which transfers this movement into the body of the cartridge via a short r
* Since there is no physical connection between the sylus and the wiring, the stylus can easily be made replaceable. Most (but not all) modern MM cartridges off
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...ecording and playback - notably, the vertical tracking angle (VTA) and the stylus rake angle (SRA) - were never formally standardized, and vary considerably
...00. At the upper end of cartridge cost, playing a single LP may cost $1 in stylus wear alone.
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...t adequately retain a stylus, or so deep that during mastering, the cutter stylus passes through the lacquer into the aluminum substrate. The out of phase co
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...must be lowered slowly onto the disk to prevent damage to the disk or the stylus. All quality turntables include a mechanism, usually hydraulic, to slowly l
...s be incompatible with the mass of the cartridge and the compliance of the stylus, leading to an excessively high or low resonant frequency that induces skip
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...s may be destroyed by an excessive current. Also, the diamond cutting head stylus may prematurely wear or break. This places important constraints on the max
Additionally, during playback, the turntable's stylus has limits on what grooves it can successfully track. Cartridges can only t
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