What CD cleaner to use?

I've tried most of them, including the expensive ones. Here's what I've found to be best ... the eyeglass lens cleaner sold by Walmart. Under three-bucks per spray bottle.

The late Tim Mrock of Perfect Path Technologies turned me on to it.

Frank

Another Shinola guy here.
Been using it for years.

Best I ever used was Intron Protect from Nanotec Systems out of Japan. Unfortunately haven't been able to find any more. CDs that would not play after a few skirts played without any issues.

  There are cases where I use a cleaner. When I do use a cleaner, I just use a spray intended for my glasses. Otherwise, I will just rinse them under hot water , and carefully dry them off with terry cloth, from center to outer edge. Most important to me is not to make any scratches. If you do, it is better that they are radial scratches rather than circular, i.e. in line with the laser tracking the disc.

The best CD cleaner is L’Art du Son i have tried many this is by far the best.

After all of these years, I still use a dab of Windex (original).
Never heard nor seen any damage.

Happy Listening!

I've tried a few of the products mentioned above. Some disc showed a haze a few years after treatment.
I've had fantastic results with AudioTop Digital. Clean the disc twice for better results.
Careful if you have pen'd the edges. This will remove permanent marker.
After 15 years of using this I've not seen any damage.

https://www.thecableco.com/digital-10238.html

The front of my shirt.

There is a great post about CD's and long term damage that can occur by using the wrong types of products on them. (Remember the Armor All disaster? I do, it ruined around 500 of my shiny discs).

Here's the link: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1096407732&read&keyw&zzshine=ola

I hope that this helps ...

Second the Shine Ola easy to use and effective. I have tried a number of them and this one does the trick.

Most popular audiophile solutions are: (alphabetically)

Auric Illuminator - CD/DVD Cleaner
Disc Doctor CD Cleaning System
Shine Ola (Record Research)
Vivid (Walker Audio)

Inexpensive cleaner that provide good results: (alphabetically)

ROR (residual oil remover) V-Vax Corp., Chicago
Novus Plastic Polish #1, Novus Inc. Minnesota
3M Plastic Polish, 3M Corp.

Search Audiogon posts for reviews of the audiophile solutions. For the inexpensive versions, buy and try.

Check out this animation. It will explain it to you.

http://audiobuff.zoovy.com/category/_product_info.aud101