@richardbrand that makes sense with different tonearm designs.
I looked at the stylus after playing each side of several different LPs and it has almost no visible debris. All my records were either washed manually or most recently re-washed before playing with the Nova ultrasonic machine. The vinyl is actually very clean. I use either the Hana white stylus brush or the MoFi one that came with the LP9 and it never picks up anything that I can see with a naked eye. I will test it with my ZeroDust if it picks up anything after the stylus was brushed.
Stylus cleaners
I used to use Onzo ZeroDust with my first few cartridges years ago. With the last two cartridges, Hana ML, I have only been using the included Hana brush for every side of LP and the MoFi LP-9 liquid stylus cleaner (I get as much fluid out of the brush by pressing it against the neck of the bottle before I clean stylus) every 3-4 records.
Onzo is collecting dust especially since the Fremer’s The Tracking Angle article.
I’ve been looking at DS Audio ST-50 but at $80 I’m not sure it will do anything better than my current cleaning methods.
What’s your stylus cleaning routine?
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I use a US stylus cleaner, have for about a year and a half, no issues, but a black background when listen to records. Hummingguru S-Duo |
@mulveling over DS-Audio l had a “mull over” some polymer stylus cleaner options and decided to order one. The AudioZomba Dust Magnet (AZDM1) stylus cleaner was a quarter of the price of the DS-Audio equivalent here in the UK…. And the product arguably looks far sexier! |
So I conducted the experiment. I played one side of Miles Davis “Kind Of Blue” UHQR 33RPM Analog Productions. This record was washed in the Humminguru Nova but played twice since. This is the 3rd play.
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