Anybody using the last record preservative


Back in the early '80s I started using last record preservative now here 40 whatever years later just picked up another bottle because I noticed all my new records have a lot of noise with the exception of a few analog Productions and some Rhino records are pretty quiet but the most have a lot of surface noise long story short picked up a new bottle of last record preservative put it on one of my records and OMG the difference is amazing my system nowadays is way more resolving than it used to be noise floor has dropped into the basement and the musical and the music has jumped to the foreground

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I have been using last record preservative for… hmmm, I guess more than thirty years. All my albums are treated (2,000).
 

My methodology is to clean with Last Power Cleaner before cleaning on my cleaning machine, then apply LAST. Most of my albums have been cleaned and treated only once. 

Then Last All-Purpose cleaner before playing each time to get the dust off.
 

 

Perhaps fifteen or twenty years ago when vinyl was the only medium for audiophiles there was enormous amount of effort by audiophiles and even chemists to determine appropriate and effective cleaning fluids. Extensive testing, much of it science based where museums were concerned with record preservation made it very clear that even adding a very small amount of alcohol to cleaning fluid would remove plasticity from the vinyl and result in increased wear and damage the records.

 

So, unless you are really interested in diving in to the enormous volume of literature on the subject. I would stick with major / non alcohol based cleaning and preserving fluids. So that leaves out STP, transmission fluid, and olive oil.