slartibartfast wrote: > I think I've just had a bit of an epiphany [emoji3]. All the years I > have had LP records I always blamed a dodgy sounding one on a worn > stylus. The only cleaning I did was a carbon fibre brush before playing. > > I was fed up with sibilance and a bit of surface noise on a Sting album > so thought I had nothing to lose by cleaning it. Don't laugh but I used > a multi surface cleaning wipe from Tesco. Now it sounds like a totally > different record, in a good way. Sibilance is gone and high frequency > details which were hidden are now clear. > I was going to buy a new stylus, now I think maybe a cleaning machine > would be a better idea. > > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
What's in the cleaning wipe? Presumably some solvents/detergents? Are 'these' (https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/268043953) the wipes? I once bought several box sets of old 1950s vinyl operas from an Oxfam shop. I decided they needed a bit of a cleanup, and used dilute fairy liquid (applied with cotton wool balls) and rinsed extensively with distilled water. That turned out to be successful. I have heard of people who clean LPs immediately after purchase. I wonder whether this would help on the recent RSD release of the 4 LP version of Ocean Songs by The Dirty Three, which has rather a lot of pops and clicks. And can you believe the digital download code was only for 128k mp3. Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 4/pCP7.0/LMS8.1.2/Material with files on QNAP TS-251A Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 > Rega Fono Mini; Naim CD3) 2 x Squeezebox Radios, 1 X Squeezebox 3 (retired), 1 x SqueezeAMP *Office:* LMS8.0.0 running on Raspberry Pi3; Raspberry Pi 3 player with touchscreen/piCorePlayer/IQaudIO DAC and Amp *Portable:* Raspberry Pi 3B/pCP7.0.1/LMS8.1.2/Material, files on Seagate portable drive, powered via power brick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grumpy Bob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115093 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
