Stylus cleaners

@audphile1 

I don't use a stylus cleaner. I just use brushes. My system sounds great. I clean my records with a Degritter so I don't get gunk on the stylus. And I trust Joe Grado, the inventor of the moving coil cartridge: "Don't clean your stylus with that gunk. Just brush it off. Diamonds are so hard nothing sticks to them."

Yes I know @audio-b-dog 

My take is - if your records are clean (washed, re-sleeved in new anti-static sleeves) and you use a carbon fiber brush to clean records before playing them, you won’t have any significant dust accumulation on the stylus. Dry stylus brush is all you need. However, periodically cleaning stylus with something like the LAST duo does not hurt. It will not attract dust. It will get the stylus and cantilever cleaner than a dry brush alone can. Degritter is a key part of it all. It gets your records really clean. 
Your Grado cartridge stylus was exposed to significantly dirtier records pre-Degritter. And the accumulation of gunk was unlikely due to LAST stylus cleaner. Most likely cause was dirty records. That’s my theory. 

My question was to those who use Mr. Clean on their stylus. 

Paper towel is an absolute lint and fiber bomb… lint free clean room grade wipes are very inexpensive 

carry on

True that @tomic601 

how about Dude Wipes? I just need to figure out the order…

@audphile1 

I think when I had the Grado cartridge, I cleaned my records with  the VPI 16.5. Anywy, Joe Grado absolutely asked what liquid I was cleaning my stylus with. I was using Last. He told me not to use it. Last was the gunk he had to clean off my stylus. That was the last day I used Last stylus cleaner, and I had already quit using Last on my records. I was worried about what it would seal in. It's hard to hear, I know. All those years I used it and thought I was doing a good and just audiophile thing. At this point, though, the fewer things I have to do to a record before finally getting to listen to it, the happier I am.