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Thank you. I know that stylus cleaning kits aren't that easy to come by.
Amazing what collects on the stylus. STANTON does the job it was designed to do. I recommend it.
Other manufacturers' phonograph cartridges can be purchased for $2000 and up, but the biggest part of the investment is in the stylus. Ignore that other guy who tells you to clean your stylus with your finger. Lesson: treat it with respect if not reverence. If you have a top-of-line Shure VR-series cartridge and bend or break the tiny elliptical stylus, you're not simply out a couple of hundred bucks for a replacement. Shure no longer makes the stylus, claiming the elements are in such short supply the cost would be prohibitive. The Stanton fluid seems relatively effective at keeping the stylus free of build-up and debris and is actually a small fraction of the cost of some of the truly tony brands used by the connoisseurs. It's not on the level of some of the rarest single-malt Scotches; but if you're not too good to drink Johnny Walker Red or Dewar's White Label, this is your poison.
I purchased this product recently, thinking that Stanton knew more than me when it came to cleaning one's stylus. It plays everything except 16 R.P.M., a disc speed that in my 46 years I have yet to encounter.My suggestion for budget concience audiophiles is gently use your finger to wipe off dust build up. The brush is "carefully engineered", while the fluid is "special.that's unsurpassed at removing waxy build up".
Basically, they tell you to use their.02 brush on your stylus when build up occurs. If I owned the Sirius III turntable by Rockport Electronics at $75,000.00, I'd probably search the net up and down for something that's not BS like this. The directions borderline on hilarious.
For my money it all seems to be one gigantic waste. As an option, (note: an option). you can sqeeze a drop of their magic fluid onto the.02 brush.
My turntable is a Stanton STR8-80 which I love. It's probably sacrilege to yuppie audiophiles to do this, but I have yet to ruin a cartridge, and I have been using vinyl for 40+ years (that's right, since I was 6).
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