Stylus cleaners

'The Humminguru is doing a decent job by the way with new and previously played vinyl. I dig it."

Good to see your opinion on HG has come around.

I suppose  I should move on one before some additional tariff bumps the reasonable cost. The humble Spin Clean does only so much😂

Degritter or equivalent is what's really  preferred, but I haven't come across a used one for 1/2 price 😂

I ONLY buy used....being picky/lucky, most of the time I find winners that Spin Clean is enough to make worthy of being played on someone's UBER setup or a show.

@tablejockey I use Knosti Disco Antistat which is similar to spinclean. I will most likely continue to wash used and soiled records with it as first step (I don’t normally end up with any unless misrepresented in auction). The Humdinger’s been a pleasure to use. Convenient and effective. Give it a shot. Just avoid using the included fluid. It leaves audible (veiled sound) residue and I had to rewash records. I use only distilled water - @lalitk was spot on with that recommendation. 

I have 2x of the DS and love them. The acid test is use all the above m ( yes I have ) and drop your stylus on a pristine DS pad… that dot of #%<?!! Might shock ya. Drop again…. Nothing.. pad is washable  ( I use distilled water ) I do use stylast and I have a fairly intense US cleaning regime w Degritter and KL Audio machines…

I do use great care slowly lowering and raising from the pad.

@tomic601 when I used Onzo I washed it as well. They’re similar but DS Audio has better ergonomics with it being almost as thin as LP. But man I’ having a hard time with $80 for a gel pad. Lol