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Fell asleep while TT was running with ortodoncia black cartridge!

After a few ahem adult beverages fell asleep for approx 2 hours while my system was on and I was playing vinyl. Wondering if I screwed up my 2m black cartridge or not. Feeling terrible about it. I have the manual mmf 5.1 turntable so was sitting there for all that time. Any thoughts from all the analog gurus out there? Is my stylus still ok?
tubelvr1
tubelvr1 OP
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Ok great... thanks for your response. Feeling relieved. Just bought the cartridge fairly recently too, so was feeling extra guilty.
rdk777's avatar
rdk777
573 posts
 
Get yourself a tonearm lifter.  I've tried a few and found Little Fwend to be the best - i's also pricey ($250), but well worth it.  I like to tip a few and listen to vinyl - there's no other better time - I think we can both agree on that. Audio Technica offers a version at around $130 - there may be cheaper ones on Ebay.
mofimadness's avatar
mofimadness
4,993 posts
 
Agree. You should be fine.

Although, you never know about those Ortodoncia cartridges :-)
best-groove's avatar
best-groove
843 posts
 
Don't worry, nothing catastrophic has happened, a lot has happened to me in the past.
chakster's avatar
chakster
6,144 posts
 
You can probably do that for another 600 sleeping hours as the life span of the Black's Shibata stylus tip is a bit longer. 
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