At What Point is the Needle Damaging Records?

Pardon my grammar.

Jmoog08

Have you tried demagnetizing your cartridge before assuming stylus damage?

Here are a couple of links to those old stylus microscopes some dealers had in the 70s. Mcintosh dealers had to buy a lot of gear back then. The Wild Heerbrug was $4000 back then. That's about $17,000 in today's dollars. Audio Classics said theirs cost them $6800 dollars. I can't find what the Shure microscope cost back then. Links.[http://www.roger-russell.com/phono.htm] [http://www.shure.com/idc/groups/tech_pubs/@global_managed/documents/webcontent/us_pro_sek-2_ug.pdf]

Sorry, try Shure link again. http://www.shure@global_managed/documents/webcontent/us_pro_sek-2_ug.pdf

I guess their system doesn't like it.[http://www.shure.com/idc/groups/tech_pubs/@global_managed/documents/webcontent/us_pro_sek-2_ug.pdf] If you want, copy and paste might work if this doesn't.

http://www.shure.com/idc/groups/tech_pubs/@global_managed/documents/webcontent/us_pro_sek-2_ug.pdf