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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
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mofimadness
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Agree. You should be fine.

Although, you never know about those Ortodoncia cartridges :-)
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best-groove
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Don't worry, nothing catastrophic has happened, a lot has happened to me in the past.
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chakster
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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. 
skyscraper
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Thanks for posting your question teo_audio. I've often wondered would happen to my Ortofon 2M Black's needle if I didn't get the tonearm lifted right away after a record ended. I left it on for only five minute after a record had ended yesterday and was worried about what might have happened to that Shibata stylus. Apparently nothing from what you all are saying. One less thing to worry about.

Mike

qdrone
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So 2 hours is like 2 1/2 albums playing time. No harm no foul.
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