How long does a stylus last?

Hey Marty. Well said,and your educated guess may even be much lower if one factors in all the variables in the real world. Hell,once upon a time I tore the sylus off a brand new denon 103d while cleaning the record with a brush! Cartridge life averaged out to be a big fat "ZERO" hours!!!!!! Lost a couple of good nights sleep over that one.

Marakanetz...Hey! Neat idea for a stylus odometer. All you would really need is a timer (such as commonly used on machinery) wired up to the TT motor. Cost would be about $15, but with Cryo treatment it would sell to the vinyl crowd for $200 easy :-)

Ecclectique, I did that with a Denon 301, perhaps we are living in parallel universes that are mirror images of each other. This Sunday, another Audiogon member has asked me to come to his house and install a Dynavector XX on a VPI Scout. Ya think that I'm sweatin' a little?

If only I kept a cartridge long enough to wear it out. I get itchy feet after a year and want to move on, but my latest is a koetsu Rosewood Signature, so hopefully as some of the respondents intimated, I've reached my destination. Good advise though on the central importance of record cleaning.

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David,
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Sorry, but you don't get to rest here. You need to get the Koetsu Signature Rosewood Platinum.
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Rgds,
Larry
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