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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?

audphile1
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@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. 

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@tomic601,

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.  

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@antinn And yet you always have a valuable add Bravo

best to you in music :-)

Jim

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@antinn agreed 100%

 

However, if the record is well cleaned, the stylus should not require much effort to keep clean.

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I long ago had a Van den Hull Grasshopper. I tried a number of stylist liquid cleaners. All of which said apply only to the stylist not the cantilever. So they have a brush about 100 times the size of the stylist... and pretty viscous "cleaner". The proposition was so crazy that you could actually only touch the stylist. After a few times I gave up and concluded this liquid stuff can’ t possibly do anything but gunk things up. I went to a brush and then more recently the drop it in gel. I do not have problems with wear or dust. 

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