Vinyl Accessories - Skip It or Buy It!

Thank you @millercarbon. That Walker Audio Cleaning Kit is pretty hard core, I will try it out at some point. 

It may clean the record slow the turntable and make it sound bad would never use this piece of junk.Get the KL Audio KLN LP200 record cleaning machine its much better in fact its the best.Good luck though.

Get the Audioquest anti static brush for under $30 does the job on static but not that great cleaning.

^^^^Yup, got one of those. 

Do you have a dust issue? i.e. forced hot air/ac system, with a supply/return grille causing air flow with dust?

IF so, perhaps a separate fine filter applied to that grille, removable for periodic cleaning.

I always preferred Shure cartridges with attached damped brushes. The brush helps with dust that ’just landed’ before the stylus gets there, and somewhat with static. Also, Shure’s brushes are/were damped, helping it two ways. 1 helps with any warps, 2 helps stylus successfully track at lighter weight.

I am now using a replacement stylus in my Shure V15VxMR body. Jico, SAS, with a brush. However, their brush is NOT damped, just a dust brush, ok, I still like it, but it is good to know the difference, and precision tracking force and anti-skate forces are ’different’ than the calculated .5 gram Shure Damped brush.

I never used them, but I see Pickering and Stanton cartridges have integral brushes (not sure if the brushes are damped).

My first MC cartridge has no brush. OK, but even after deep cleaning of LP, I do find dust on it’s stylus, whereas the Shure on the adjacent arm, I find the dust on the brush.

The brush you posted is impressive looking, a price I would not like, and I don’t have room to mount one anyway, but if you think long, average the cost over years of problem solving, it’s not going to bankrupt you.

i.e. I went thru 2 inexpensive end of play auto lifts before I coughed up the $150. for the Audio Technica one. It is terrific.

https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-AT6006R-Safety-Raiser/dp/B07HKX6WL7/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&ke...

However, you need room between your Arm base and the edge of your spinner to mount it (space is reduced by Vintage JVC and Denon direct drives for instance). I can only fit one for my long arm as it's base is further from the spinner's edge.