Gruv Glide your records and you wont have any static...
Nor any music. ;-)
@Lowrider,
Gruv Glide is not a cleaning product, it's a lubricant. Properly applied it does indeed go down into the grooves. By design it leaves a thin, residual film on the groovewall surfaces.
This creates quieter backgrounds, dramatically so with some records. It also masks the smallest groove modulations, making higher frequencies and the full amplitude of each waveform unplayable by the stylus.
Surface noise can also be reduced by methods that do not impair (and in some cases improve) the full depth of musical information. OTOH, some of those methods are expensive, whereas Gruv Glide is relatively cheap. As in most things audio, it's a choice each of us must make based on individual listening preferences and circumstances.
