Daily Record cleaning

I'm pretty much in the @mijostyn camp.

I don't buy records that look like they won't clean easily.

I don't clean records before play unless I can see debris.  Then I clean with a Decca brush.

I don't clean any record unless I hear noise when playing.  Then I take it off and clean on Nitty-Gritty Automatic.  Over many decades I have found that once properly cleaned, a record almost never gets noisy again.  I have cleaned very few twice.

I have never found the Nitty-Gritty to cause static.

I clean the stylus if I can see debris on it. (I'm very short-sighted).  That's not very often.

"My opinion, people are way too obsessed. Get a little perspective." There, I'm agreeing with Miller again.

There are a ton of liquid solutions out there, i have a stylus cleaners coming, a used VPI and an AQ fibre daily brush on the way. I’ll need the liquid cleaner and a goat hair brush.

No OCD here, just trying to put together a nice package of cleaning gear, wait are you saying audio guys get obsessed hahahaa nooooooo not us Lol

I just use a carbon fibre hunt record brush daily for all my albums, hand wipe each side before i play them, that will remove all the static and debris off the record in question.

Ultrasonic to clean all records including new ones.  Anti-Static brush.

Typically costing ~ $1k-$4k from manual to automatic operation, I choose an ultrasonic cleaner after concluding it’s the best way to get vinyl records the cleanest without damaging them.  

CSPort IME1 for static. It’s expensive but truly the only thing that works (I’m sure the similar DS Audio does too). This device completely removes any static. The improvement in sound is quite noticeable and I’m not only talking about the static pops.