Great video! Perhaps a good follow-up video would be: How to identify the type of stylus cartridge needed for replacement. Of course this will be listed in the owner's manual of the the turntable, but such documents have a tendency to get misplaced or lost over the years.
@@rookmaster7502 it can be tricky, especially if it's a vintage cartridge. The first thing to do is tro try to find some markings or inscriptions in the stylus plastic housing and on the cartridge, normally there's a brand logo, the brand name or a model number. If there are no markings or inscriptions it gets trickier; you'll need to search in RU-vid and in Google "when do you replace a turntable stylus" and you'll see a ton of results and compare your cartridge/stylus visually to the thumbnails to try to identify it. What's the brand and model of your turntable? that can also help because often they come with a standard cartridge. Good luck! 👍
@@rookmaster7502 Whats so hard to find? Type in the cart in google and check the specs. Unless its 20+ years old you wont have an issue finding the stylus and if it is just buy a new cart.
I definitely needed this video because I've been using a Grado Black1 since August 2017 and a Nagaoka MP-110 for almost a year now. I'm tempted to replace the stylus on both but I feel the Black1 is due for a Green replacement stylus whereas the MP-110 can still go a while. The Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 is brand new for me and has less than 10 LPs worth of use, all clean of course.
Hey, how about using a mechanical counter (a.k.a. clickers) and increase it every time you listen to a side of a record, whole record, song, etc? Or you can get an electronic chronograph dedicated just to the play time, or something fun like that 😃 it will make the experience even more involving
@@roderrickastley9122 you could, there are very cheap electronic microscopes on Amazon that work great for this, and you connect them to your computer or your phone 😃
("Sgt.J."). "I, haven't watched this video yet. But, plan on it.". Where can you, get older type turn table? I, actually miss B.s.r. &, Gerard. Lol. Pickering. Empire.
Great video up until 1:35 You dont just listen, thats terribly unreliable. When you hear problems audibly things have already been bad for a while. Depending on the stylus profile you will hear Sibilance even when its brand new as well. The only valid way to do this method is to have a spare stylus to always compare against and even then you should keep track of the hours somewhat. Heres how you do it. Get a clicker counter, you can get one as a free app as well. Add +1 to every side played and divide by 3 to get the hours. 1500 clicks / sides = 500 hours. No stylus should be casually played without inspection after 500 hours and many should be replaced before this like conicals and ellitpicals.
