Di I really need to clean my LP's?


Recently, when announcing to a relative my intent to use a recently purchased Spin-Clean Record Washer on some LP’s, of which I am the original owner and which have not been played in decades, her reply was, “If you’ve always handled them correctly, and stored them in their sleeves, why do you need to clean them?” I think that this is a very good question. Is there a good reason for me to clean them?

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If you take care of record the way most people do then yes, you need a record cleaner. The problem with the Spin Clean is it is a pita to use,

"unless you wear a clean suit in a clean room, you need to clean."

@emrofsemanon , That is wrong. For decades all I used was a conductive sweep arm and a dust cover during play. Some dust remained in the run out area. I would still be doing this had I not been given a bunch of 78s which were fungus infected filthy.

You can tell if your records are dirty. Your stylus will collect it as a gob surrounding a stylus. This is not the lint the stylus picks up. The lint is a sign of trouble. A gob on the stylus is trouble. My stylus hardly ever needs cleaning. At some point I will publish pictures.