Just keep in mind that static charge is never defeated permanently. You can totally discharge the surface of an LP and in the next instant charge it up maximally without realizing it, by handling it usually or also by inserting it into a paper sleeve or other sleeve that is a good electron or negative ion donor. Orthomead has it right. I own a static charge meter. My direct evidence is that the Zerostat is all you need to dissipate charge. Also, decades ago the Shure Corporation showed among many other things that when you discharge one side of an LP, the charge migrates to the other side. So that can account for seemingly discharged LPs that then stick to the mat. It doesn't necessarily mean that charge re-accumulated on the up side.
Vinyl foibles
I'd like to make this a space to ask questions about vinyl problems you're having trouble solving. I have a lot of questions, but I think it's better if we ask one at a time, or else I think we could have long lists.
Here is my first question. I have a Degritter album washer. I think it works great. I wash all my albums once, but not before I play them again and again. Somehow, though, and this includes new albums no one else has ever touched, they pick up ticks and what sounds like scratches. I rewash the album and it sounds like new again. I only touch albums by their edges. How do inner bands become so dirty that sometimes a smudge can last a minute or more? I've been playing vinyl albums for more years than many of you have lived, and I have learned to be very careful with vinyl. Are there vinyl gremlins haunting my album shelves?
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@audio-b-dog As a defence offered up from myself for the content of the PACVR authored by @antinn, the content is Technical and Straight Forward. Some who read it will get what is a proposal immediately and others will need assistance, as the PACVR is a Text Book. I am one who made inquiries and needed a teacher, where the author Neil stepped in on many occasions for both myself and others to assist with the inquirers attaining a clearly understood grasp of the requirements. Outside of the Solutions Purchased to make the mixtures, I have approx' £50 spent on ancillaries to support the Manual Cleaning Method, which has proven the best I have ever encountered, which I now refer to as a purification of the Vinyl which is very audible. (The cleanliness of the Substrate in contact with the Stylus is able to be perceived as part of he structure of the produced End Sound). The digital weigh scale I purchased was the most important tool used to proportion the solutions bought, and get the cleaning mixtures extremely accurate. Much of the other advisories put forward in the PAVCR are possibly the cheapest options to utilise, have a look at the Static Control Method. For the onlooker in to this Thread, offered through this Analog Section of the Agon Forum, is the PAVCR. This is a free download document, that really does educate on caring for the Vinyl used for replaying recorded music. |
I had a VPI in a room with 2 other tables. All on same shelf. VPI used w/o mat on their 20lb platter. In the winter (heat pump, forced air), the static with the VPI was very high. Zerostat helped. Mats made no difference. Loved the VPI but could never figure out the static. Eventually I just sold it. The other two tables (Denon K55, Gem Dandy) soldier on with minimum static or none at all. Same room, records, cleaning etc. Who knows? Anyway, another room with a different turntable also gets it but the Zerostat seems to help and I don't hear it on the record. However if I walk across the room (wool carpeted) too fast and don't discharge on something first I can see the spark. |
The Link will give an onlooker of this Thread a broader insight to Statics effect on a replay of a Vinyl Album. https://revivinyl.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-Revivinyl-Guide-to-Turntable-Platter-Mats.pdf |
Regarding AI to critique something you wrote: It seems to be programmed to massage your ego and give you a positive, feel good response no matter what. I asked it what it thought of some rhyming utter nonsense I came up with on the spot and told me it was just silly wonderful and listed all the things that were terrific about it, even comparing it to the works of a couple well known, successful authors. |
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