Time To Upgrade My Turntable

[jrhymeammo]

Congrats!

Mobile Fidelity Record Brush works wonders and is the best brush I've never tried.
Replacement Pads are vastly available and is priced reasonably.

I like solution by Record Research Labss. Some people will disagree, but Iso-H2O mix adds surface noise and do not like it. For your clean and new records, I have not been disappointed by a carbon fibre brush by Audioquest. One of my friends bought a cheaper one for 10 clams, but brush is much stiffer and I personally do not feel comfortable using them. Do you have a stylus brush?
I sometimes use my AQ Carbon Fibre brush to clean off deburis off of my needle. It really helps to have a soft brush.

JRA

[Jack in Wilmington]

Congrats!

Mobile Fidelity Record Brush works wonders and is the best brush I've never tried.
Replacement Pads are vastly available and is priced reasonably.

I like solution by Record Research Labss. Some people will disagree, but Iso-H2O mix adds surface noise and do not like it. For your clean and new records, I have not been disappointed by a carbon fibre brush by Audioquest. One of my friends bought a cheaper one for 10 clams, but brush is much stiffer and I personally do not feel comfortable using them. Do you have a stylus brush?
I sometimes use my AQ Carbon Fibre brush to clean off deburis off of my needle. It really helps to have a soft brush.

JRA

I do have a stylus cleaning brush that came with my last shure cartridge. I also have a record brush by Discwasher and their solution. I'll check into the MF brush and the Audioquest also along with the RR Labs solution. Thanks

[emaidel]

I don't know if the Discwasher SC-2 stylus cleaning "brush" is still available, but I always swore by it. It consists of a round "pad" of very densely packed bristles to which the user applies a drop or two of the supplied solution. Then, you place your stylus in the pad and pull it toward you a few times. If you push the pad back, you'll all but destroy your stylus!

In many a cartridge "clinic" performed by numerous manufacturers during the 70's, almost all used the SC-2 to dramatically illustrate (via a microscope) the terrific job the SC-2 did. A stylus firmly embedded in a pile of crud, and completely unplayable, often proved to be just fine after a cleaning with the SC-2.