My wife touched my turntable - help please

To all that replied thanks very much. The reassurance was greatly appreciated. I have listened quite a bit and everything sounds great so I suspect there is really no issue. I do appreciate the advice and am probably to uptight when it comes to the cartridge. I should just be happy my wife likes the music but I will educate her about how to lift it up and I will work on my speling

Gary

My advice, if desired...tell your wife she did a GOOD thing by lifting the arm at record's end. Tell her she has the makings of an expert and show her how to cue the arm properly, using cueing arm and by "hand". Go a step further and show her the proper way to select, clean, spin, remove, and store an LP. Then, when the next record ends, give her a title of choice and tell her you'd like her to do the honors because she is soo dang good at it.....while you ease back further into your chair.

I'm with those who are just a bit incredulous as to why you thought you had a problem in the first place - just because she touched it?! Talk about a placebo effect - no mishap was known to have occurred, yet you thought you could maybe 'see' a difference in the way the cartridge rode in the groove. Only an audiophile could be so anally hyper-neurotic, if you'll pardon my saying so. :-)

Listen, your cartridge is quite a bit more robust - and your wife quite a bit more competent - than you apparently assume. I'm like Twl - I never use the cueing lever. In fact, I have the opposite 'problem', if you could call it that: I can't convince my girlfriend to even try to learn how to do it without the cueing lever - she's too scared!

So cheer (and lighten) up; Hey, it's better than having Dieter touch your monkey!

Every time I see the title of this topic I start laughing out loud. Just imagine how it would look to a non-audiophile. Or imagine it as a teaser on the cover of an audio mag.

My Wife Touched My Turntable--Should I Dump Her?

:-)

I accept all the ribbing in the spirit in which it was given and humbly (or with pie on my face) but should add there was a rather worrisome noise made when she took it the arm off, and no the record was not scratched. In retrospect the reason was probably the volume was still up or the kids were screaming. When I looked that at night it really did look like it was riding low but it may have been the light and the record - which was a bit warped. The other thing I failed to mention was that when I first got the cartridge it rode very low and I thought I was crazy until I realized the thing was defective from the start. It took three months to get it repaired, which only added to the paranoia. Finally the reason for the title was to attract input or advice - which it did. Again I acknowledge my goof and furthermore that my wife is a wonderful person and I am lucky enough to be with someone who loves music and takes an interest in my hobby. Suitably humiliated (but at least not in need of a cartridge)