“I tried the LAST Stylus Cleaner and Stylast Stylus Treatment. Works great!”
@audphile1
I’m glad to know that you’re happy with the outcome.
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?
“I tried the LAST Stylus Cleaner and Stylast Stylus Treatment. Works great!” I’m glad to know that you’re happy with the outcome. |
@lalitk thank you. Cleaning the stylus with MoFi LP9 on a regular basis yields increase in clarity. I believe with LAST cleaner followed by Stylast treatment I hear at least the same improvements in sound quality but in addition a decrease in surface noise. Interesting results. This LAST set is a keeper. |
Sorry just saw your post from about 10-days ago. Stylus cleaning is one of those areas I leave to everyone's own decision. There are many as addressed in this thread. However, if the record is well cleaned, the stylus should not require much effort to keep clean. I wet clean with Ortofon carbon stylus brush misted with distilled water once before each day's play, and then after each record blow it down it with the Orbit® HEPA Blower – Sensor Cleaning for DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras | Sensor Swab®, Cinema Sensor Cleaning. It's available from many sites including Amazon. |
@antinn agreed 100%
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