How to burn in a new pickup

I am in the process of playing 100-300 LPs to help my Dynavector KaratD2 MII settle-in. I have been going through my collection in the process rekindling some old friendships and weeding out the les appreciated(most of the late 80's). They will soon be up for sale. Making room for the ever growing pile of goodies I can't stop buying. Coming full circle...just play music. Enjoy!

The Cardas record does have a burn in groove. I asked George Cardas about it and he recommended using it for about an hour after your cartridge is properly set up. After that he said play records and "save the cartridge for the music!!"

"We just use the word Pickup for cartridge in Denmark"

Thanks, Daemon. "Pickup" is used the same way here, too, although it has several other meanings. Thank you for being so good humored...I just couldn't resist.

The pain of cartridge breakin is not so great (although it is disconcerting to hear changes on something you just paid big money for)...I think just playing music with it will work as well as anything. Depending on the cartridge it will settle down after a few tens of hours.

Why not just enjoy listening to music? I mean granted your cartridge may not be fully broken in, but I'm sure it'll sound pretty good. Why waste any of it's too short life being burned in on anything but music? Also there may be a phono burn in cd out there, butI don't know much about it. Perhaps others may? Happy listening!