I'll say..... do you have a pet at home. Pet dander gets picked up by static and moved around..
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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@dogberry ”We May have wandered slightly off-topic”
Attention to detail, AI earlier, and wandering off-topic. Relying too much on AI makes you lazy, and if your brain gets lazy, you can wander about…. and forget a lot of details. |
How do you all clean your stylus? I use the Ortofon short-bristle brush. I used to clean the brush by rubbing it against my jeans, but I was told that is not a proper way. Jeans can be dirty. True, that. I purchased some microfiber clothes. Apparently that is a better way. I used to worry about the short-bristled brush breaking off the diamond stylus, but finally figured no way Ortofon would sell something that does that. It works well. Eevery now and then I brush the diamond and the underneath with a soft brush. I have found that sometimes dust collects on the underbody of the cartridge. Many years ago I purchased Grado's first wood-bodied Reference Cartridge. My housekeeper bent the cantilever and I called Grado Labs and talked to Joe Grado. He had me send in the cartridge and he fixed it for free. The good old days. When I talked to him on the phone, he said, "Don't put any of that gunk on your cartridge. It took me a long time to get it off." I was using Last stylus cleaner. Now, as Mr. Grado emphatically suggested, I simply brush my stylus. Just saying.... |
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