Vinyl foibles

@noromance ”Distilled water (is) in my SpinClean and my ultrasonic cleaner”

I would expected that. Not an answer to what l asked. 
 

“If applying water (other than using a professional record cleaner) to a record surface bad practice?
 

You made no reference to using distilled water in conjunction with applying it to the record surface using a corduroy material. Plus the usual every day practice of the original poster doing this each time a record is played.

l don’t want to rub it in, but surly using a cloth with distilled water just moves most of the dirt and dust around.

The Degritter is excellent, but on the expensive side. I've had mine since 2021 and it's a workhorse. But it does take at least five minutes, up to ten minutes. Generally when I wash a record it stays clean for a long time and when it picks up ticks they can be taken off with a second run through the Degritter.

I put a removable sticker on the record jacket with the date I've cleaned the record. If I see several stickers applied within a short period of time that means the noises on the records can't be removed. If it's a favorite record, I'll look for another in mint condition.

I think we all need to be careful of buying reissues beause a lot of them have been digitized. I recently bought a reissue of Wayne Shorter's "See No Evil" because it had been mastered by the original audio tape. The same with Joni Mitchell's Hijiera. But before I knew that some vinyl had been digitized,  I had purchased so many digitized records. 

I know a lot of people distrust chatgbt but it has become very helpful to me as an audiophile. When I ask about a particular album it immediately knows the whole history and which dates of release sound good and which don't.

@mylogic It wasn’t clear to me if the final paragraph was contingent on what went before. Apologies. Nevertheless, the SpinClean does use pads which rub against the record.

@noromance r

As you say, if it has pads, the dirt and grime would mostly accumulate in the bottom of the reservoir of water afterwards, not remain on the pads.
 

l have casually observed some really bad practices in some record shops where the owners have cleaned many records, using a spray and cloth, or tea towel. To the uneducated this may look fine, but unless a clean cloth, or towel is used each time, if someone wants to attempt to clean like this, records are only just being cross-contaminated. 

Oy! Here we go again with the static charge.

The zerostat works just fine if used as directed.

Playing an LP does not induce a static charge on an LP.

Removing an LP from its paper sleeve before play is a huge cause of static charge.

Touching an LP when we ourselves are charged by walking across a carpet or etc. is another source.

The game is never over. If you discharge an LP thoroughly, you can charge it up again a second later by touch, etc., so don’t say that this or that method doesn’t work just because you thought you discharged an LP and it proved later to be charged up again.