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SME 20/2 Static Electricity

I love my 20/2 but I get a lot of static electricity on the platter, especially in the winter.  
Maybe a platter mat will help.  Anyone had this issue and resolved it?  
I'm considering one of the many static removing devices as well. 
I never had this much static on either of the Clearaudio decks I owned previously.  Must be something related to platter material?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Peter

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pcosta
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Just get one of these:

https://www.ds-audio-w.biz/ion-001-vinyl-ionizer/
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stereo5
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My solution cost $15.00 and works, how much does the vinyl ionizer  contraption cost?
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mijostyn
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Another joke. Lewm, I'm on your side on this one. Spraying anything on your record is a bad idea and it will not stop the static problem neither will grounded mats. A mat will only discharge one side of the record, the wrong side. There is no magic in this. You have to have a path to ground from the site that the static is being produced. The stylus in the groove. Static electricity is terrible for records because it draws dust like a magnet which you can prove to yourself by holding a record you just played up to a light and you will see dust fly towards the record. The dust can become embedded in the groove and held there so your stylus can grind it into the groove instead of pushing it out of the way. Besides the grounded sweep arm the next best thing for record hygiene is a dust cover. 
By the way take a meter and see if your "grounded mat" is actually conductive. If it is not it would even discharge the side of the record touching it.  
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stereo5
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I invite anyone to come to my house and give the grounding mat a try.  There will be a nice hot steamy plate of crow waiting for you afterwards. 
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millercarbon
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Me again. Another perfectly clear post misconstrued and misunderstood. I blame our public schools. The post clearly says to spray, and sorry gonna shout, didn't get through the first time, AROUND equipment. Spraying carpet ain't gonna do no good. You're not listening to the carpet. Not to mention, have you seen the size of your carpet? Makes no sense. No sense at all. Yet some noob telling people to do this. Based on what? Did he try it? Of course not. That would eat into his posting nonsense time.

What about residue on equipment? Same deal. Look. Prove it to ya. Cut and paste:
There's other more costly and possibly more effective sprays you can find on Amazon. Haven't tried them because they are more in the nature of leaving kind of a film on fabric

Pro tip: when the writer mentions something that's a clue.
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