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Are There Any Risks to Your Stylus From Using Magic Eraser

I guess I'm late to the magic eraser discovery.

I read a blog about sibilance, and it was suggested that cleaning your stylus with magic eraser, cleans so well that sibilance issues can be greatly minimized.......assuming all other factors have been optimized (SRA etc.).
However, someone mentioned that the magic eraser fibers grabbed onto the cantilever and damaged their cartridge.

I clean all my LP's before playing and use a Zerostat. It cleans the stylus "OK" but "if" the magic eraser is safe and provides better stylus cleaning, I would really like to try it.

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uberwaltz
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Like I said, there is always one favorite one. The others just sit in the drawer.
A few months ago I would have said, what a waste but......
I mounted my older Scheu Analog SL and must have found that sometimes elusive sweet spot of sra that has made we extremely reluctant to take it off again..... lol.
This means there are much more expensive carts sitting on headshells in my headshell keeper just looking purty.
Not gathering dust as that would be a very bad thing.......
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I only recently got a table with an arm with removable Headshell and bugger what the purists say about minimizing signal connection it’s the only way to fly imho now.
Think I now have 7 Headshell with carts mounted and aligned ready to go with just a bit of fiddling with vtf and vta .

But then I also have a Rega......
But plans for that are just to mount a 2M mono and be done.
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Think it's just you and me Mulveling.
Likewise I still use Onzow and brushes and Last fluid.
I'm more likely to damage a stylus or cantilever when swapping carts than using ME.
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Uberwaltz brushes his teeth with a mill bastard file:)
Teeth?
What are them then?
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+1 Mulveling!

Way too many timid mice around as far as dealing with stylus cleaning.
I have been cleaning my styli with combinations of ME, Onzow and brush for as long as I can remember and quite vigorously to boot.
Never broken anything yet..... (touch wood)
As long as you are not a total cak handed clutz you can get pretty enthusiastic with cleaning even on more expensive carts.
My collection includes Koetsu Black Goldline, Scheu SL, Ortofon Black Cadenza etc.
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