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RE: You in a Radio Station?

2 years = 730 days

400 hours / 730 days = about 33 minutes a day, not several hours. That's maybe three fourths of an LP per day.

For someone who listens to several LPs a day, the stylus needs to be replaced more frequently than every two years ears or more.

By the time distortion due to stylus wear is audible, your records are being damaged. 1000 hours is a pretty consistent estimate across sources, including makers and others, for expected stylus life. There are some variables though, mostly how clean the LPs are.

The OP is taking a rational path for someone listens to lots of LPs and wants to preserve them.

It's kind of like grills on speakers. Sure, it probably sounds better without a grill, but an intact driver with a grill is still preferable to a driver with a hole in it due to pet or kid damage and no grill. Likewise, if forced to choose, I'd pick an unworn lesser stylus over a pricier one that I won't replace often enough to avoid damaging my records. Okay not a perfect analogy, but both show the worth of some pragmatism over audiophile religious purity.

My unsolicited two cents, YMMV, etc.

Best,
Brent


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