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Help with stylus cleaning

Hi. I have recently delved back into vinyl after many years. I have a very nice Denon turntable with a fairly new Ortofon Samba MC cartridge. Perhaps its an indictment of our housekeeping, but my stylus needle seems to accumulate a lot of dust and tiny fibers, even after one play. I try to clean the stylus after each play, but some of the dust/fibers are difficult to remove. I don't have the best record cleaner (SpinClean), but the dust still seems excessive. Ortofon warns of using liquid cleaners, although several brands claim not to damage the cartridge or stylus. My stylus brush is a cheap one at present. Is there a consensus stylus cleaner/brush out there? Is my problem unusual?? Many thanks.

Perreaux SVX1 phono preamp
Musical Fidelity A3cr dual mono preamp
Denon DP-47f turntable
Ortofon Samba low output MC cartridge
Odyssey Audio Stratus Plus SS amp
Cambridge Audio Azur 740C CD player
Albert Von Schweikert VR-4 loudspeakers
Panamaxz 5000 line conditioner
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chayro
2,925 posts
 
Sorry again - I meant English.
rccc
216 posts
 
Ive been very happy with Last system in combination with ME and Onzow as needed
paanders
43 posts
 
Terrific tip. I LOVE these cheap tweakz. I get so overwhelmed by markup and minor differences btwn exotic cleaning ingredients and tools.

So far this week, I'm turning to Aqufina and giving up on chemist-grade "super pure water" and also to magic eraser original instead of $$$ stylus cleaner.

Any experts out there have devastating criticisms of these cheap tweaks? (Perhaps they are not technically "tweaks," but rather "cleaning equipment.")

Mind you, this is all while using vpi 16.5 and so forth.
etrout
3 posts
 
make sure to look at the aquafina bottle. a lot of bottled drinking water, if they are distilled, have minerals/salts added back to that for taste.
stevecham
3,340 posts
 
I have been using the LP9 on the stylus brush method for over ten years now and find this works very well. I have not suffered any damage to stylus or cartridges. It is perfectly safe to use and is very effective. Just an applicator brush's worth from the bottle applied to the stylus brush and then 2 or 3 short back front strokes on the stylus and all is well.
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