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Re: semantics in action

> Wear out indicates the condition of unusability.

You are engaging in semantics. I know people who would consider any reduction in audio quality as unacceptable. I know others who, if you put the words "analog", "vinyl" or "lp" in the sentence, will tolerate virtually any level of degradation.

I know I certainly have owned LP records that I considered "unusable" (and some of them arrived in that condition from the factory.) I still have some of those in my collection that I've just been too lazy to toss.

You can take any product, whether auto tires or shoes, that wears with age or use and have a debate over when they become "unusable." Same with LP's. It certainly does not take 1000 years to wear out an LP. Several hundred plays will probably result in some high frequency loss and background noise increase even on a good system with good cleaning habits. (Most people don't play their music in a "clean room" so some dust will be attracted to even a just-cleaned record while being played and be ground into the vinyl.)

Sadly, there is an inverse relationship between how often a person plays a beloved record and how long it lasts - the more you like it, the faster the deterioration.

Ultimately at what point that loss becomes untenable to the listener is a call each person must make for themselves.

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