Vinyl foibles

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....

Chatgbt makes me smile. I talk about… 

Could be the beginning of a romance 😉

My granddaughters were over yesterday and gave me grief for using chatgbt. I am helping to support the large data centers burning too much electricity. They are in UC Santa Barbara. As a writer who talks about history, chatgbt is an excellent researcher. I know enough about the subject if chatgbt is just making stuff up, I challenge it, and it congratulates me on my great question. But it has helped me a lot as I set up my new system. It's a pretty damn good audiophile.

I did not like what was happening to the treble on my Sonus Faber Olyimpica Nova 5s, which have a much more transparent treble than old Sonus Fabers. It said that with my new setup, expensive Pass Labs preamps, if an album is badly recorded and compressed, I'm going to hear it. If I ask about certain albums it takes me into the studio and tells me who the producers are. It's been a big help, but it had to learn my equipment, and it stores all of that in its memory.

It stores all of what anybody ever wrote about any subject, then homogenizes it often regardless of the quality of the source material then coughs up a collective response when prompted. The user must be sophisticated enough to find a truth somewhere in the prose.

@audio-b-dog The PAVCR has made available excellent guidance on methodology for static removal and dust collection.

I have extended this to be used for my cleaning ancillaries, especially the ones with bristles /fibres as the cleaning aid.

I use the Method shown on the PAVCR along with a comb used by dog groomers made from the same material. There is following a cleaning, no dust particulate  remaining visible. The already proven very successful Manual Cleaning Method for Vinyl. Is now with a maintenance of the condition achieved, where a pre-use cleaning method, using non contaminated ancillaries, is keeping the Vinyl remaining in the finest of condition.

I still coming to terms with what I think is a little strange, where I have made such time for all things vinyl. I thoroughly enjoy the learning, the processes and on many occasions the outcomes, but am quick to overlook the medium and put on a CD.