Needle Styli
Needle Styli
how to tell if my turntable needs a new stylus/needle?
i have a sony pslx250 turntable and my records sound a little off, i cant comment to whether or this is normal since i dont have experience with records. i also took a close look at the stylus and noticed that the end is kind of flat. i have looked at a few pictures of other stylus and they seem to have a point at their end, but i dont know if all needles are the same or not?
The very tip of a stylus shoudn't wear down at all. Some are more rounded than others... A stylus never bottoms out in the groove. It only makes contact with the V-shaped groove walls. What happens as a stylus wears is that the sides begin to get flat spots worn into them. This causes more distortion and poorer tracking. The worn stylus that is no longer nice and rounded can also act like a cutter and permanently damage a record's groove walls.
A stylus generally lasts around 500 hours of play. A little more or less depending on the shape and quality. It's really impossible to actually see stylus wear without a powerful microscope and a trained eye before it's too late and you're already damaging your records. When in doubt or you start to hear more distortion or less high frequencies... change the stylus is the best way to go... or if you think you may have around 500 hours on it or it may have been damaged in an accident.
Here's a good link...
http://www.vinylengine.com/examining-your-stylus.shtml
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