Doesn't look too bad to me.
(I never get such good results with my USB microscope. What's the secret?)
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Doesn't look too bad to me.
(I never get such good results with my USB microscope. What's the secret?)
Barry
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cheers,there's no secret,i always use a piece of white paper behind,other than that i just focus and snap
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If i may give a guess as to how it sounds, i'd say it picks up relatively much vinyl noise and hiss?
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i dont know yet as ive not put it on.
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The reason of my suspicion is that it looks "narrow", i.e. quite worn.
It may also be by design, but it is very difficult to judge by pics like these. No offense meant, the pics are great but doesn't allow us to se the stylus quite as well as you would need.
Atb Mike
PS A worn stylus drops down further in the groove and is in contact with the vinyl at the very tip of the diamond, where no musical information is available. (As it is engraved in the side walls of the "V" )
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Not sure but the hair could do with some Grecian 2000!
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...... that, or a Brazilian!
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The right side of the diamond looks hollowed inward and the left side looks the oppositeOriginally Posted by jamie123
ha ha, hows this ?
Worn out I would say and dirty
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Whenever I've looked closely at any stylus it hasn't filled me with confidence to let it near my vinyl. Of course I have used them because mostly they have been new. How anyone can tell a good one from a bad one is beyond me. A cart with no stylus is the only dead give away.
Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
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System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.
Likely I have bad eyes.
Still it seems to me that the magnification needs be a LOT bigger to see wear patterns with any assurances.
That piccie, while much better than the rest is simply of inadequate /magnification resolution for purpose
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