Here is a quick tip - how to get your cartriddge to last longer. After a lot of experimenting, here is my "regime" for playing vinyl records.-
1) Use the Mofi record brush to wipe away dust. Before playing a record, let the record spin some rounds, using the brush. This brush goes further into to the grooves than others I have tried..2) Clean the Mofi brush with a toothbrush or similar. It should be 100 percent clean. 3) Use a small carbon brush to clean the stylus. This is sensitive, don’t overdo it. Keep the volume up so you can hear what you do. 4) For every ten LPs or so, I clean my stylus with a wet cleaner (Lyra LPT).
"Careful" is a key word, here.
Without the cleaning, the pickup tends to pick up much dust and dirt. With poor sonic results and reduced lifetime expectation.
The last thing you want, with an expensive cartridge, is that it fails due to record wear, knocks and shocks, and whatever. So, a strict regime for removing dust and dirt is useful.
1) Use the Mofi record brush to wipe away dust. Before playing a record, let the record spin some rounds, using the brush. This brush goes further into to the grooves than others I have tried..2) Clean the Mofi brush with a toothbrush or similar. It should be 100 percent clean. 3) Use a small carbon brush to clean the stylus. This is sensitive, don’t overdo it. Keep the volume up so you can hear what you do. 4) For every ten LPs or so, I clean my stylus with a wet cleaner (Lyra LPT).
"Careful" is a key word, here.
Without the cleaning, the pickup tends to pick up much dust and dirt. With poor sonic results and reduced lifetime expectation.
The last thing you want, with an expensive cartridge, is that it fails due to record wear, knocks and shocks, and whatever. So, a strict regime for removing dust and dirt is useful.