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How to burn in a new pickup


Cut it be possible to burn in a new pickup just letting it play in the inner gove of a single for 5 days, or will et hurt the pickup, will there be at heat problem.

Don´t like the ide about the smal single because the inner grove the angle is not the bedst, but there are single the sides as normale record, the inner grove is the mittel of a normal grove, this sems to be at better ide?

just a idé what do you think?

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daemon
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viridian
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Don't let the cartridge keep spinning in the lead out groove, the vinyl will heat up and become glazed onto the stylus. Playing records is fine, but I read in a Shure brocure once that they recommended breaking in the suspension by leaving the stylus in the groove with the turntable off, as in not spinning. Makes sense to me, but I never tried it.
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jond
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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!
daemon OP
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Hej!

I have a loot of humor "smokester" it´s okay for me some times i do the same like you, :-)

Mc cartrige are just like vin getting better the longer you have it, if it not cheap, but dont have it for long (the vine) but jeg have headacke in the morning for very.. very.. long time.

Don´t think it´s the vine, my wife maybe. She needs ad "burn in" in my Pickup and a filter and olie change later.

At the moment I am not "burn-in" or "breakning in" my "pickup" or "cartridge" at the way i ask, just want to know if anyone have a good way to do it.

It whas just a idé, what do you think? Question?

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