Most of our vinyl collections are 30-50 yrs old now. LP's and boxes of treasured 45's. All have at least a minimal amount of wear at this point in time. I keep a few conical stylus and cartridge setups in ready to plug and play headshells and use them quite often as they DO make quite a difference when playing older vinyl and the 45 rpm collection. Always keep a tried and true Staunton 500 on hand as they were THE standard at radio stations across the country. Having been a radio DJ, many hundreds of hours were logged with those Staunton's and the record collection never would have withstood the usage with anything else. So I'm a firm believer in Conical Stylus and proper tracking for those discs from the 90's back. For pristine albums of course I use an elliptical Shure M97XE. On a budget here so the $500 plus setups are out of the question.
