Musical Surroundings Phonomena II+ -OR- Moon 110lp v2 -OR- Parasound ZPhono XRM Phono

Yes, that is it (ones sans any added cleaning agents).

My original pack of them has a finer grain than later one's, but no-one has complained about the later variation(s).

I stick a slice of it down to a small piece of thick paper, but have a tonearm up/down control like the one in the following video.

I would not trust my doing it solely by hand @ this point in time, but I'm 68.

Lot's of info here in the forums on the best way to use it.

DeKay

Nice! I ordered some, Magic Eraser bath tomorrow!

I made some gains detail-wise, by re-setting the arm and putting rubber feet under the rigid feet.

I also received a Musical Surroundings Phonomena II+, connected it and sounds absolutely bad. I know it shouldn't so I must be doing something wrong.

Double check to make certain that you have connected the new phono preamp to the "line" inputs on your amplifier and not to the "phono" inputs.

Set the gain to the lowest option and set the loading to 47K, or whatever is closest to that, and run it for a few days.

Keeping the gain setting low (your cartridge has extremely high output specs) try the loading options just below and just above 47K to see if either sounds better.

DeKay

thanks DeKay!