Anyone See Downside to an Ionizer blowing on Turntable?

@mr_m there's a response from another user of the Hunt brush somewhere on these forums that confirms it made the static worse! 

@mikelavigne what you say about "blowing" makes a lot of sense. Still from everything I can find there are only 2 units that are simple to use and effective both from Japan. The DS Audio & CS Port units, yes expensive but work as many say they do on WBF. 

ossicle2brain

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07-12-2023 at 02:52pm 

I threw the Hudson anti stat brush across the room. That’s the second one. What a waste of time. Yes the carbon fibers in it are conductive and with a meter I checked continuity to ground through them.  It's a high resistance but there is a path.

I would love to see a video of them actually working with the toilet paper attraction test or meter test.. Mine added static. Vinyl attracts electrons. A grounded brush is like an infinite supply of them.

So back to just the Milty.

And the problem with the silicon roller is that it also adds static. So if you do it while the record is on the platter you then have to take it off again to blast with the Milty.

So it might be back to the carbon fiber anti stat brush after the album is de-statted and on the platter, or... I’m actually wondering about plain ’ol compressed air. Use the Milty with album in hand. Place on turntable....blow off fibers and the loose stuff with compressed air somehow. Maybe a small compressed air can that can be recharged easily. No need to touch the album after a cleaning. I don’t trust that brushes won’t move crud into the grooves from the flats, making things worse and no need to antistat after the Milty or similar.