Build-up on stylus - any new cures?
mixermarkwilliams This deposit on my cantilever could have come from a particular disc that I hope to identify at some point.Most likely it was accumulation over time from multiple records. What are you using to clean your LPs? |
Thanks, I'll add LP9 to my growing collection of stylus cleaning stuff, I appreciate it. As to what I use for cleaning, it's the humble Spin-Clean. I always use the prescribed amount of surfactant, not washing a record until it seems well distributed in the distilled water. I suppose it could be leaving deposits on the discs, though I haven't seen any mention of this before. |
We wipe the stylus forward (towards me) with the little Ortofon round brush. No grooveglide used , although, it does make,records last longer. grooveglide only on the rare records! Stuff really kills pops & hiss from speakers. Don’t use at all anymore, %70:of my records have been put to my computer via technics sl1200mkII WITH the Ortofon Arkiv Concorde, and for the records that sound thin, less bass, I put on the nightclub II Concorde to put to my hard drive before cleaning a,bit with audiolab 3.0, then burn to CDs. I clean in the sink with Ivory mild soap and a painters corner brush. Then on a dry towel, and vacuum with my shop vac with felt pads I stuck to the underside of the attachment. Works a dream! |
