"Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better!

It is a no go for me to play records with no turntable lid!  I would go further and say l would never think EVER about buying one that didn’t have this one simple rudimentary requirement.

Keeping vinyl dust free and smoke free contaminates if the owner is heaven forbid a smoker must be the first consideration in my book. I may be old school but l would never buy a turntable without the one critical requirement……a turntable lid.

l just can’t get my head around playing records without thinking of all the airborne dust making it’s way onto the surface. Surely it defeats the whole object of actively cleaning your collection and then ‘openly’ inviting future contamination.

Seriously l wonder why people who own a turntable without a lid and then bang on about cleaning solutions. After all if you bought a convertible would you ever not put the ‘lid up’ in adverse conditions?

Just a bit of light banter here, but we’ll worth considering if you are of the ‘no lid brigade’ and think you can ever hope to get on top of the record cleanliness quest.

It is a no go for me to play records with no turntable lid!  I would go further and say l would never think EVER about buying one that didn’t have this one simple rudimentary requirement.

Keeping vinyl dust free and smoke free contaminates if the owner is heaven forbid a smoker must be the first consideration in my book. I may be old school but l would never buy a turntable without the one critical requirement……a turntable lid.

l just can’t get my head around playing records without thinking of all the airborne dust making it’s way onto the surface. Surely it defeats the whole object of actively cleaning your collection and then ‘openly’ inviting future contamination.

Seriously l wonder why people who own a turntable without a lid and then bang on about cleaning solutions. After all if you bought a convertible would you ever not put the ‘lid up’ in adverse conditions?

Just a bit of light banter here, but we’ll worth considering if you are of the ‘no lid brigade’ and think you can ever hope to get on top of the record cleanliness quest.

It is a no go for me to play records with no turntable lid!  I would go further and say l would never think EVER about buying one that didn’t have this one simple rudimentary requirement.

Keeping vinyl dust free and smoke free contaminates if the owner is heaven forbid a smoker must be the first consideration in my book. I may be old school but l would never buy a turntable without the one critical requirement……a turntable lid.

l just can’t get my head around playing records without thinking of all the airborne dust making it’s way onto the surface. Surely it defeats the whole object of actively cleaning your collection and then ‘openly’ inviting future contamination.

Seriously l wonder why people who own a turntable without a lid and then bang on about cleaning solutions. After all if you bought a convertible would you ever not put the ‘lid up’ in adverse conditions?

Just a bit of light banter here, but we’ll worth considering if you are of the ‘no lid brigade’ and think you can ever hope to get on top of the record cleanliness quest.

I accidentally reposted my original post again in error…….Audiogon is a strange beast as old posts don’t vanish unless manually deleted once posted! Still a learning process for me…..well there are two sides to every record…………

With regard to hearing ‘things’ with the lid still up or even going down l wonder if the last poster ever had anyone do a blind test for him (or her) while music was playing?

The bigger question that is curious to me if lids have a negative effect, is how big is it versus the other numerous colourations in the room that can ‘affect playback’ like objects, furnishings and flooring. They all change the sound ultimately so nothing is perfect reproduction by the time it reaches your ears.

My original post was why ditch a lid when it actively has the benefit of reducing airborne dust and contaminates versus without a lid, increased contamination while actually playing records (and two sides of course). Records will always make a most attractive home for dust and airborne detritus.

Replacing records back into posh anti-static liners after being exposed for this time introduces contamination into the liner that is designed to keep dust out. This habit with most users can cause damage in storage until the next time played. So if you are of the constant cleaning club it seams more logical to me to clean records AFTER playing and not before! This surely is the only way of keeping records as clean as possible for those users who have record players without lids!

dogberry

this thread is about ‘’Cleaning’’ vinyl, not to shave or not, that is not the question!

Hi dogberry, l do take your point for the usefulness of shaving products on the ‘platter’ but the thread was about cleaning vinyl originally. However a healthy clean platter will aid clean vinyl.

mmm, has now got me to thinking on the same lines for my decks…..Thanks for the heads up, l will try an electric toothbrush for cleaning my styli.

No offence intended, just some light tracking banter!