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I agre, 100 hours is about the average any cartridge I owned

Posted by Muzikmike on March 29, 2012 at 10:33:34:
needed for the elastomers of the suspension to loosen up.

Tolerances in a cartridge (and of course the better ones have specs concerning that far tighter. That cantilever, too, will flex and loosen up over that early period.

The entire thing being that the magnet structure et al become aligned, which is why the sound changes. If the cartridge was not designed to allow for that break in, those changes would still occur, but that alignment of the moon, the sun, the stars and Jupiter would not be correct.

I've found that a sprinkling of ginger snap cookie dust will hasten things along. Simply crush the cookie until it is fine dust. If you wish, you can snort the remaining dust as only a tiny amount is needed for your cartridge. I'm told it produces a very fine "high." Or so JimK says.