Record-playing Rituals?

Scottht, I would check out LAST record presevative and Stylast as well. I have records I've played over and over: no wear, no clicks, no pops. As far as Stylast is concered the only people who don't like it sell cartidges for a living. You do have to apply judiously making sure none of it travels up the cantilever. Your stylus will last 3000+ hours. In fact your compliance and suspenion will give out first. Your stylus builds up tremendous heat from the friction to the point it actually mealts the groove as it passes by. With stylast that won't happen. So between LAST and Stylast you can play record indefitly.
I apply LAST right after a good cleaning with a 16.5 and they say it's good for 200 plays allthough I know I have records I've played more than that!! Good Luck and good listening

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I took the LP out, I put it in a kitchen alu double foil to deal with statics, put on the platter, use a fiber carbon cleaner to remove any small dust particle, look at the stylus (if not ok clean with a small brush, else sand paper - not often), fire!!!

Stefano

Turn 'stereo' on and let warm up at least 15minutes
Take our record
take dust cover off NAD533
put record platter and hit the power
dust record with carbon brush as it spins
put weight on record
drop the needle

i wet clean records when i get 'em
dry clean them with carbon brush off platter after they have been sitting for a while
use brush then gel on needle every week
demag with Cardas burn-in record every week

Don't have a cleaning machine and aint gonna get one.
Records woulkd probably benefit from such a machine but the records sounds real good as is and any wear down to my needle is appreciated because it will neccessitate upgrading. ;-)

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Do major clean with LAST power and LAST preservative.Hvae found that I rarely amd compelled to do another VPI clean unless it's and LP I know has been played a half dozen times but use an Alsop cleaner almost every play so it get's a wet clean.Have yet to find any dry brush that removes dust just pushes it around.Use my old Discwasher brush as a pre-Alsop if it's been days that I have left an LP on deck with no cover and it's full of dust.Each of these items helps next down line last longer/work better.As Fremmer once pointed out it is not obsessive to use pre-cleaner like Discwasher to save Alsop and ore importanlty Alsop to protect lips of felyon your VPI or NG machine.If you ust take a realy gunky LP and don't try to take smoke,oils,etc off LP before you machine clean it the faster the tube felt pads will become contminted and spread bad stuff on successive LP's in future.
Chazzbo