Best Stylus Cleaner Fluid and Brush?
FanOfOTR
experienced opinions welcome. Thank you.
Sherwin
Scott Dorsey
>I've seen a number of different brands such as Ortofon, Stanton, LAST, etc. Any
>experienced opinions welcome. Thank you.
They are all pretty much the same. Head, Red, and Roll cleaner is fine also.
Any of the light halocarbons or fluorocarbons will work without any problem.
A Q-tip will work as well as most of the brushes if you are very careful with
it.
--scott
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Paul Stamler
fine -- use a magnifier to watch the stylus and make sure you're really
getting the gunge off. Oh, let the stylus dry before you play any records.
Peace,
Paul
Mike Rivers
> I've seen a number of different brands such as Ortofon, Stanton, LAST, etc. Any
> experienced opinions welcome. Thank you.
Distilled water and a small artist's watercolor brush. Cheaper and
works as well.
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Tim Padrick
When playing a record, a mix of vinyl, metal, and oil are pounded onto the
stylus at high heat and at about 2.5 tons per square inch. It takes
something abrasive to get that off. 30 micron aluminum oxide paper (Linn
stylus cleaning paper) is the best. Very fine emery cloth ("Crocus cloth")
or the strike pad from a matchbook will also work.
If a stylus is well used and has never been cleaned this way, there will be
"gook" on the stylus well above that portion that touches the record. It
will be necessary to hold the cleaner vertically and the stylus all the way
up to the cantilever.
In order to access the cleanliness or lack thereof, you need at least 50x
magnification. In order to see the wear, you need 120x and must view the
stylus in silhouette (illuminate a white background).
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Steve Scott
> I've seen a number of different brands such as Ortofon, Stanton, LAST, etc. Any
> experienced opinions welcome. Thank you.
>
> Sherwin
I've used Discwasher disc and stylus cleaners for about 25 years --
http://tinyurl.com/2ppyt. Always worked good for me. Took a lot of
ceremony to be an audiophile in the 70s...
Steve
William Sommerwerck
About 25 years ago a friend asked me to look at a friend of his's (???) phono
system. The guy was having tracking problems.
It seems he used a spray-on record lubricant that he applied rather liberally to
the LP, without removing the excess (though I suspect that any more than zero of
this stuff was an excess).
Anyhow, the lubricant had accumulated around the stylus, looking like a ant hill
with just the barest bit of the stylus _tip_ sticking out of it.
Chris Hornbeck
<will...@nwlink.com> wrote:
>Anyhow, the lubricant had accumulated around the stylus, looking like a ant hill
>with just the barest bit of the stylus _tip_ sticking out of it.
Discwasher was pretty famous for this.
They made a nice stylus brush though, if not exposed to alcohol.
LAST "Stylast" is important in the record playing canon.
Any fewer than four different mystical incantations should be
grounds for charges of insincerity, and Stylast makes an
elegant fourth.
Chris Hornbeck
"Second star to the right,
Then straight on 'til morning."
William Sommerwerck
>> stylus, looking like a ant hill with just the barest bit
>> of the stylus _tip_ sticking out of it.
> Discwasher was pretty famous for this.
You're mistaken. Discwasher never made a record "lubricant" of this type.
Chris Hornbeck
Sorry. I was writing about their record cleaning fluid.