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In Reply to: RE: Entry level turntable and phono amp? posted by hesslemount@yahoo.com on May 15, 2017 at 05:35:19:
Yes, well. I did say that it has to be effective and not too laborious or you will end up thinking in the great English way " I can't be arsed".Of the article itself, only one of the products cleans records. All of others except one just remove surface dirt, the other is a static reducer ( I have used one for over 30 years and it doesn't exactly "remove" all static but it is generally effective.
I say that the other products do not clean records in the same way as brushing some crumbs off the front of your shirt is not cleaning it.
The part about alcohol removing some kind of protective film from the surface of the disc is pure fantasy. I have been to record pressing plants and there is nobidy there coating discs with some such stuff.
There is a strong anti-alcohol ( not for consumption :-)) stance in the audiophile community for record cleaning. However I can find no actual evidence to support this stance although I have seen reports of experiments where LPs have been soaked in isopropyl and left for days with nothing untoward happening. I wish I could now find a reference to support this. Nevertherless just for caution I would not recommend using undiluted isopropyl. I have done so for some intransigent debris over a very small area of a record and have no ill effects to report.
Cleaning records usually involves some kind of fluid to free impacted debris from the groove wall. It is then held in suspension in the fluid which has to be removed somehow. Some hand wash methods involve blotting it off with a lint free towel. Machines use vacuums etc. I do not understand Daft Fader's method as there seems to be no removal stage. BTW natural hair artist's brushes can become very expensive if using a large size suitable for this task. For example a single Windsor and Newton size 12 sable brush is 64 gbp.
The one actual cleaning product in the article is the Disco Antistat which is more or less exactly the same as the Spin Clean or the original Knosti. I say original as I bought mine in 1974 or 75.
Edits: 05/15/17
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