What devices have you found useful when inspecting your stylii for cleanliness?


Please do not describe how you clean your stylii once you have discovered they are dirty.  Make that another topic!

I am interested in what you have found useful during your inspection.  My Audio Technica microline stylus is so small I can hardly see it at the best of times.  To make things worse for me, I need reading glasses and my current tone arm is a fixed head-shell design so I cannot easily get a good viewing angle - the arm does not tilt much!  Also the background, mainly a black mat, does not offer a good contrast.

Suggestions please ....

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lewm,

guilty, I knew it at the time about the stylus, but safely seeing while cleaning the stylus is important.

I didn’t imagine cleaning lp’s to be a part of this, but when he mentioned how hard it is for him to see combined with checking between sides, ....

lak,

interesting, but the max is only 3.5x, and getting the right distance to the object is important, not to mention, viewing the underside which is why a magnifying mirror works well.