Comments on: The Best Record Cleaning Solutions: Exit to Vintage Street

By: Scott Lylander

Scott Lylander — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 14:38:26 +0000

I love collecting records, but hate maintenance. My audio friends have ultrasonic cleaners, when I get the chance, I bring a few key records over for a cleaning. I play my records dirty! OOOO

By: Eric Pye

Eric Pye — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 18:58:19 +0000

In reply to Stephen P Fleschler. The magic eraser has lots of fans, and may be worth a mention in place of the Zero Dust ;-)

By: Eric Pye

Eric Pye — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 18:57:27 +0000

In reply to Mike Cornell. Yeah, Amazon prices in Canada almost never match the US site in any way. Hate that. My Spin Clean cloths all get washed before I use them, and results have been pretty good. I do find I get more pops in winter here in Calgary due to dry, static conditions and more dust in the air from our heating system. Putting a humidifier in the listening room has helped a bit.

By: Stephen P Fleschler

Stephen P Fleschler — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 05:09:33 +0000

I use a Magic Eraser to clean my stylus for use on every record side. My Benz Ruby3 lasted waaay beyond normal (loss of dynamics told me it was time to replace, no distortion noticed even at 2300 hours/15 years with an always clean stylus and high end analog rig). I am using it on my new cartridge as well. Costs a buck.

Also have used the VPI 16 since 1982. Reliable and noisy.
Considering the Kirmuss ultrasonic cleaner (28,500 LPs/7,000 78s-lots of cleaning in my future as well). Not a digiphobe (7,000 CDs).

By: Ian White

Ian White — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 20:41:28 +0000

In reply to Sonicblue.

Thank you for reminding me about that. I was going to delete that entire section after speaking with a few retailers to get their
take on it.

It’s now deleted and my sample is in the trash.

Best,
Ian White

By: Sonicblue

Sonicblue — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 20:37:15 +0000

The ZeroDust review references silicon. Did you mean silicone? What a difference an E makes.

Apparently it is neither. The polymer leaves a stubborn residue on your stylus as reported by Michael Fremer.

By: Mike Cornell

Mike Cornell — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:13:06 +0000

Thanks, Ian. I’ll have another go with the SpinClean, maybe on some less favourite records. I had been using micro-fibre cloths to dry but they seem to have left a lot of lint (someone suggested washing them before using) but went back to the SpinClean cloths last time and still noticed the tick & pop issue. I was looking into the Record Doctor as it seemed to be quite reasonably priced. However, what is 329.99USD on Amazon.com is 784.99CAD on Amazon.ca which is ridiculous. At the straight exchange rate, it should be about $420CAD so even $499 would be ok. $784.99CAD makes no sense but will try to find another outlet for it here in Canada.

By: Ian White

Ian White — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:37:14 +0000

In reply to Mike Cornell.

Mike,

I’ve not had that particular issue but I only use the SpinClean on certain records. Mostly $1 finds.

I use the RecordDoctor VI for all used and new vinyl myself. I had a VPI HW-16.5 for a few years but the noise was insane.

I have a SpinClean and I do change the roller/brushes rather frequently.

Ian

By: Mike Cornell

Mike Cornell — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:45:54 +0000

I’m having issues with my SpinClean. I follow all the steps and in addition, get some extra dry time in a dish rack and yet my records are coming out noisier. Lots of little ticks and pops noticeable between tracks and in very quiet passages of music…even with brand new records I’ve cleaned.

By: David Crandon

David Crandon — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 16:58:36 +0000

Something that I’ve used since the 1970’s is Last.

https://thelastfactory.com/product/last-record-preservative-2-oz/

https://www.stereophile.com/content/last-record-preservation-treatment

It is a record preservative…not a lubricant. They also make a stylus preservative as well. Don’t recall reading any reviews of the stylus preservative, but the LP preservative was always reviewed very well. Both by the mainstream magazines and the esoteric golden ear mags.