Vinyl Care

Yeah, I bought Last directly from them, and even talked to the owner - he was a big tape fan. I didn't try his Stylus cleaner, I use Lyra with seemingly excellent results.

bdp24

I will buy it,but he's not going to sell it until he moves in June.

thanks.

New Stylus Shapes contact areas of the grooves of old worn LPs that prior spherical and elliptical shapes did not contact, thus the content is there!.

It is important to get all the gunk out of the bottom of the grooves of old LPs, like mine from high school and college days (I'm 76 now). 

I use a strong mix, manual vigorous scrub with baby scalp brush, rinse with distilled water, batches of 10 at a time

It is amazing how much better they sound. IOW, Vigorously clean them before you buy new versions.

elliottbnewcombjr

I have done this in the past.

I had a keg party back in the 70’s and a bunch of records got a pitcher of beer spilled on them,which I didn’t discover until the next day.

Unfortunately I was young and dumb and used dishwashing detergent,which left a haze all over them.

When you say a strong mix,what ingredients are you using?

Oh,I also recently purchased a McIntosh MX110,I believe that’s what you have there in the background.

One other question,where can I go to read reviews on good vinyl recordings,I might want to purchase?

Thanks

Welcome to the madness! 

Record cleaning is almost a religion onto it's self. You will learn fast, that records are the cheapest part of this hobby. 

Keeping the needle clean is the most important thing. Nothing sounds worse then a dirty needle. Also it's very easy to destroy a needle cleaning it. Done it twice already myself. Generally, you get a brush, pull the brush towards you from the back of the turntable. Or you can get a little ultrasonic needle cleaner, or the sticky goo cleaners. Picked up a ultrasonic myself, it works wonderfull! Just needs a bit of distilled water. Use the same source as my ultrasonic record cleaner.

On to records. Usually, first you dry brush all the surface stuff off. Then do a wet clean, or dump into a ultrasonic/vacuum cleaner. For used records, they get dry brushed, then a manual wet wash, then go into the ultrasonic. After that get put into nice new clean rice paper sleeves. 

Chemicals for me I use all Groovewasher stuff. I trust it, not overly expensive. In my ultrasonic cleaner, I use like 6 drops of US cleaner per gallon of distilled water. 

Usually clean records in batches, it takes over my kitchen with brush, wet clean, UC clean, re-sleeve. Usually do around 6-8 records per hour. 

On my setup, there are no pops, hisses, static, very dark background. When they do start to make any noise, they get cleaned again in the US.