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Re: vinyl does wear each time played

The RIAA even has standards for high frequency loss from the number of plays (though the numbers are easily met by modern equipment.)

I'll grant you that with a good tone arm and cartridge on a well-aligned turntable the wear process is very slow, it is still there. You have mechanical contract between a very hard substance and a relatively soft plastic. (Optical playback solves the wear issue but precious few of those items in actual use.)

The question then arises when a record is so "worn out" as to be unusable. If you only play a record on a good system a few dozen times over it's life you might not notice any wear. If it was a favorite and you were playing weekly for a number of years, I'd suspect that after some hundreds of plays that there would be an audible difference between a virgin version and the well-played one (and that doesn't even include the increase in background noise from exposure to dust and other surface damage.)

I know vinyl records are well loved by their advocates, but that doesn't mean they are without some clearcut physical limitations.

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