Silent!• LOWER RECORD AND STYLUS WEAR

This stylus gets way down in the groove where all my prior stylus's never touched which is the major contributing factor of why those old records sound like new again.

For me, knowing that I'm doing even and minimal wear to my precious records was enough for me to make the jump to this cart

Any micro-linear stylus will dredge up old crud out of dirty record grooves

I just recorded some old grand funk records on to maxell UDXL II , it's like getting a digital remastered

I also clean all my records when possible with the excellent cheap-skate Disc Doctor hand-scrubber system and it makes a HUGE improvement in used vinyl

A point in favor of the AT440MLb is its superior tracking ability; no splatter or groove distortion even on difficult records

must be used with very clean record