A $349 record brush

Dust is probably at the molecular level, so it's obviously overkill.

I think the $35 Audioquest brush does just fine.

I have it for 1 year and it is by far the best.I also have the Levin which is very good.I am a LP person it is well worth it for me. Using TW AC3 turntable with TW 10.5 arm with top cartridge Transfiguration.

So spending $350.00 on a brush is crazy and $199.00 on a fuse??

I can see the value in the brush the fuse not so much. IMHO.

The Absolute Sound is not relevant to me.  That place is in la la land.  

The Absolute Sound is not relevant to me.  That place is in la la land.  

Where is the "Like Button"?

BillWojo

Get the Audioquest brush and pretend its the best.

team fuse argument is IF you have not tried it how can you weigh in on virtue and value ?. seems like the brush, any brush would stand up to similar argument… 

IF going down the Audioquest route, get the latest w grounding / conductive handle…

I am a Robot giving you tge brush off…

You can get a entry level record cleaning machine for that kind of money. What was that famous line P.T. Barnum used to say?

@tomic601 

IF going down the Audioquest route, get the latest w grounding / conductive handle…

This is the brush I use. Received it as a Christmas gift last year, off of my very detailed Amazon Wishlist. Been using it in ignorant bliss ever since. Maybe I should have asked for a $350 brush and used it as a bargaining chip...

$33 bucks and it’s a steal. https://www.ebay.com/itm/224737003092?hash=item34535e8654:g:2mwAAOSwgsxhkK~w

@reubent like your strategy, may send an addendum to Santa…..

i am a speck of dust in the robotic realms 

Nah. Ya need this. Better Value, & works faster. Guaranteed to remove the finest of dust particles. Truly Audiophile Approved. A less expensive model is available but due to the lack of filtration, it is not Audiophile Approved

Record Duster....Can also double as

@aberyclark I had one of those Ronco Vacs in the day.

@artemus_5 can I buy the less expensive one and put my N95 mask on it?

I am a tube bot.

aberyclark

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12-14-2021 6:12pm

$33 bucks and it’s a steal. https://www.ebay.com/itm/224737003092?hash=item34535e8654:g:2mwAAOSwgsxhkK~w

Ir slices! It dices! Act now and we'll double the offer!!

But wait,  need Ginsu knives, then I am in. 

The Ramar has sharp edges millimeters away from your vinyl. Not a common sense design IMO and then to have the audacity to charge $350 for it is just ludicrous. 

Who cares? The value is in the eye of the beholder. 

Seems I'm cheaping out with a $25 brush with 10µ tips! Mind you, that's used during wet cleaning. Once done, nothing except air from a blower brush and a diamond touches the grooves.

For those of you who have decided to eschew TAS, while I completely understand and struggle with the implications at every renewal, here is why I have continued to subscribe.  Like life itself in order to prevent vertigo we need perspective.  If having resonable discussions in forums like this one provides a grounding, then rags like TAS provide a starry eyed perspective of what might not be practical in all cases, but perhaps what is possible in a dream.  Besides Mikey Fremer is now writing there and I do like to keep track of his musings.

With respect to the $350 brush all I have to say is: Oy Veh!

But $5000.00 on a power cable is reasonable. 

I still remember buying $349 5 ml High Fidelity solutions.Yes it’s crazy.

https://www.analogplanet.com/content/big-dust

This links Michael Fremer 's article comparaing the efficacy of several vinyl record brushes. 

The two that won his very un-scientific survey were brushes from Hart Audio ( Under US$100 ) and the Ramar. But it does appear that there are big differences in cleaning abilities. 

It was this article that launch the Ramar brand. On a seprarte video which I cannot find, the owner of Ramar, Rangel Vasev, bumped into Fremer in the corriodor of Munich Hi Fi show. He thanked Michael for allowing him to quit his daytime job and attend to  his small business full time. I had always associated Ramar with this video which I can't find. A young entrepreneur fulfilling his dream .... What's wrong with that?

I have pursed the high end for fifty years. In the beginning, all was done with a severely limited budget (while reading TAS... when it was a pamphlet). My speaker choices were ugly or even uglier, based solely on sound quality and cost. I learned over the decades and became more financially secure. In the last decade or so my decisions are easy because of my accumulated knowledge and far less cost based. My system sounds incredible and now looks beautiful.

So, when I read the article, I saw the beautiful wood and thought... now that fits with the aesthetic of my system. Great review. I’ll splurge. So, I bought one.

Apparently there is something I do not get about how to use the brush. Even after being instructed by the manufacturer... who was really nice on the phone. I can’t get it to do a good job... it just pushes the dust around. I thought maybe it was supposed to develop a charge and attract the dust. The manufacture told me it was carefully designed not to... there are special brissles to ground it... if I remember correctly. It is obviously me. There are lots of folks that love them... there was a long backlog to get one when I got mine.

I am sure I will give it a try again sometime. But for now I use Last with their general purpose cleaner to pull off the dust before playing an album. It performed the function so well it is an amazing.

The brush is beautiful, and looks nice next to my turntable. it cost a fraction of my cheapest interconnect... so, it does’t seem like that much of a stretch to have tried it. I am now retired, worked hard all my life (typically > 70 hours per week)... I am enjoying life... so it was a fun purchase.