The grooves of untreated records contain manufacturing residue vinyl fragments stylus dust oils saliva embedded and hardened dust smoke etc.
Groove wear vinyl.
Its probably the wording.
The impact on your listening experience and record and stylus longevity is profound.
Can be difficult if not impossible to detect visually but cause the deterioration and distortion in sound.
Any decent cartridge will play records without damaging the groove.
Contrary to popular belief this explains how it is possible to repair damaged scratched vinyl records or at least greatly reduce the entity of the damage.
Groove wear caused by ancient heavy tracking arms and or worn stylus especially towards the centre of the record.
Just make sure the stylus tracking force is set to the cartridge manufacturer s recommendation.
This is really splitting hairs but under vestax you put particularly their handy trax.
Imperfectly centered spindle hole causing wow and flutter.
Some collectors are more averse to groove wear than scratches.
Do vinyl lps wear.
Regardless of its shape as a stylus tip wears on the sides of a vinyl groove it facets the diamond to create a worn edge or flat area on the sides of the tip.
Vinyl mastering engineers have a difficult job.
Here is my take.
They are expected to cut a record with great signal to noise ratio but at the same time the record should not be prone to mistracking.
It sort of implies that vestax is a shit brand and their handy trax are especially awful but their line of direct drive tables from the late 90s to mid 2000s maybe later are really top notch tables and were used in place technic 1200s in a lot of clubs for a period of time.
These so called flats eventually represent critical wear as described in detail over 40 years ago by weiler schwartz of cbs and shure incorporated.
Independent analysis has shown that playing properly cleaned records reduces groove and stylus wear significantly.
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