Record-playing Rituals?

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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

Just got a prescription for sterile water from a dentist buddy. What a load of crap, a presciption for water. Anyway, I use it as I final rinse. My records shine like they were Amoraled. They have never been this clean. I used to stop at Record Research rinse stage. Man was I missing a bunch of sound. Get some pure water to rinse or your music will always be veiled. I can't say homw much better it is that the distilled water you'ld buy at the variey store, but it works for me.

If you boiled distilled water would it not be sterile?

BTW anybody checked out $400 system Fremmer touted for lab grade water?I guess it's like 20 amp lines good for home pwners and not such a hot sounding "solution" (sorry about that) for apartment dwellers.
Chazzbo