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I've just cleaned my worst disc: Michael Jackson - Thriller. This was basically unlistenable. Horrible. I gave it a good old scrub, with a wetter sponge and more washing up liquid than I used on the other discs today. Dried it with the scrim and gave it a play. The best analogy I can think for what happened is that the stylus was a potato peeler and the record was a potato. Big, curling trails of gunk were pushed up in front of the stylus.Is that AFTER you've "cleaned" the disc? Does that not tell you that all you're actually doing is cleaning the surface dirt off but leaving the dirt in the grooves, now nice and wet, on the record?I've never had that after using my Antistat.
Nope, it tells me that the dirt from the grooves is being pushed out by the stylus.
Exactly, and if you've cleaned the disk properly that wouldn't happen! The idea is to get the dirt out BEFORE you play the disk.
This pushing of the anti-stat as the holy grail of cleaning is beyond me.
I don't think anyone's doing that, the holy grail is a keith monks machine but at >3k that's about as achievable to most people as the aforementioned cup. The Disco is simply regarded as a cost effective alternative, albeit one that requires a little extra effort on the part of the user.
I don't doubt that it works, and i'm not knocking those who use it, but are you seriously telling me that some goats hair bristles gently nestling up against a turning disc, gets into the grooves better than 17 stone of man with a sponge? Bull.
Unfortunately all that says is that you have no idea how it works, it's not a gentle cashmere pad lightly stroking against the surface of the record, goats hair is stiff and it gets into the grooves (boy...), a sponge isn't going to do that. And I worry how many styli you're going to get through before you realise that.
You've never had the stylus pushing gunk out of the record after using the Anti-stat? You're about the only one, then. There's a whole thread about it on here.
Well I'd certainly be interested in seeing that but no, it doesn't happen with my disks, even the ones that were basket cases prior to the antistat getting its hands on them.
I've had an awakening, and now see these audiophile gadgets for what they are: tosh.
I'm sticking to me sponge and Fairy.
You've convinced yourself, without actually trying the thing you're dismissing, it seems to me, which, to be polite, is unscientific, so for that reason, I'm out.