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You are certainly correct, and I agree totally, but

I am a big klutz and seem to often end up dropping the arm off of my finger onto the records from great heights. I have found that when I am tracking at 1.25 gms the resulting damage is much less than in the old days when I would be tracking at 3 gms or so. :-)

I just did that last night on one of my pristine Manley Vacuum Tube Logic lps. The SME 3009 arm and Ortofon VMS stylus hit the record and bounced and skipped a couple of times, creating a horrible sound. However, on inspection, I did not see any visible damage to the record, and also no sonic problems.

For normal people, this would not be an issue, but I seem to do this every week or so. If I would use the cuing lever, this wouldn't happen, but I don't like using it, and can't seem to force myself to.

Dick Schneiders


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