hello everybody, For many years I have used and advocated for Moon Gel as a stylus cleaner; and yes, it is pretty much the same Onzo Zero Dust. I also, maybe once-a-month, use MoFi's LP#9 stylus cleaner and the stiff Ortofon brush. I have observed no harm from the MoonGel. However once I tried Onzo I never returned to MoonGel. I Zero Dust after each record side. peace and Noel herb |
Cleeds, we seem to be perpetually miss understanding each other. I was talking about the Moongel not the Zerodust. Personally, I would not use either particularly with a more expensive cartridge that has it's stylus glued on and not set into the cantilever. Any lateral movement can potentially take the stylus off. If you don't believe this can happen take a look at the pictures on my system page and I do not even know how that happened. Now lets see if I can explain this correctly. There is always dust in the air. If there are smokers in the house and a real exhaust fan is not used for cooking there is a lot of other stuff in the air besides. For the sake of argument let us just say that nobody smokes and an exhaust fan is used for cooking. There will still be dust in the air. If a record is charged it will pull dust into itself deep into the groove where it is harder to remove. If the record is not charged some dust will fall on it but will remain on the surface where it is easily removed by any brush. As an uncharged record is removed from its sleeve and placed on the platter some dust will fall on it. Once the dust cover is closed no further dust will fall on the record. If a conductive sleep arm is used any dust on the record will be collected before the stylus gets to it and the record will remain neutral. When finished the record is removed from the turntable and immediately placed back in its sleeve. Obviously a little dust might fall on it on the way but as the record is not charged it will only be a very small amount. In my house nobody smokes, an exhaust fan is always used when cooking and both air handler's have high efficiency filters. Consequently there is no other contamination in the air to dirty the record. The records stay clean. The stylus stays clean. Yes, occasionally a little dust will get by the sweep arm and I might have to knock it off with the artist brush maybe once a week. Records that are placed in an antistatic sleeve will never have a charge. I have noticed that some records stored in a paper sleeve can come out of the sleeve with a slight charge. So I encouraged everyone to get rid of these paper sleeves and compare what I have just said with their own experience. The only record cleaning device I have is a spin clean which I only use on other people's records when they bring them in to be played. I do not buy used records. As an aside, the 5 Analog Productions albums I sprayed with a chlorinated solvent are doing wonderfully well. Having removed some of the plasticizer on the surface of the records I expect them to last longer than normal. My guess is that this is how Last record preservative works. If you think brake cleaning fluid is bad for records, guess again. Hopefully, I will be able to disclose USP microscope pictures of the results. |
mijostyn Cleeds, we seem to be perpetually miss understanding each other.I don’t think we have any misunderstanding. You insist that a new LP is inherently clean, presumably because it is "new." I know that LPs are not made in clean rooms and that most - to one degree or another - are not truly clean but contaminated with some dust. You think that once an LP is clean by your standard, it will remain clean for all eternity so long as it has been handled properly. I contend that for those of us who live in domestic environments, it will eventually attract dust. You seem to acknowledge that only in part, but insist your turntable’s conductive sweep arm will remove the dust. Yet you are at a loss to explain how dust can accumulate on your stylus if your LP and room are free of dust. You’ve also argued strongly that changing a pickup arm’s VTA will also change its azimuth. I contend that as long as the arm was properly designed and installed, the two angles are completely independent. Your arguments can be proven false: Dust can be seen with the naked eye and azimuth can actually be measured. Yet you cling to your notions. That’s no problem for me, but it’s no misunderstanding, either. |
