Anybody using the last record preservative


Back in the early '80s I started using last record preservative now here 40 whatever years later just picked up another bottle because I noticed all my new records have a lot of noise with the exception of a few analog Productions and some Rhino records are pretty quiet but the most have a lot of surface noise long story short picked up a new bottle of last record preservative put it on one of my records and OMG the difference is amazing my system nowadays is way more resolving than it used to be noise floor has dropped into the basement and the musical and the music has jumped to the foreground

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Perhaps fifteen or twenty years ago when vinyl was the only medium for audiophiles there was enormous amount of effort by audiophiles and even chemists to determine appropriate and effective cleaning fluids. Extensive testing, much of it science based where museums were concerned with record preservation made it very clear that even adding a very small amount of alcohol to cleaning fluid would remove plasticity from the vinyl and result in increased wear and damage the records.

 

So, unless you are really interested in diving in to the enormous volume of literature on the subject. I would stick with major / non alcohol based cleaning and preserving fluids. So that leaves out STP, transmission fluid, and olive oil.

Is there no spätlese extra virgin? Not to mention auslese or trockenbeeren auslese? Happy days at the Friday night Practice tasting session with the vintner in attendance!

I wouldn't do something based on someone else doing it on youtube.  A lubricant that is wet and sticky will hold on to dust and any other crap that falls on the record and that cannot be good.  Last is just the opposite.  It is dry and slippery and reduces static charge so the record is less likely to attract dust.  

There is a lot of experts that claim that vinyl records do not have plasticizers that can be extracted by alcohol and so it is safe to use it on records.  I play it safe and use cleaners that are either free of alcohol or use low concentration alcohol.