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Do you clean your records before play, after play, or once (and then never again)?

All my records have been cleaned at least once, but after play, I'll drop it in my Klaudio ultrasonic cleaner for a quick re-clean. I figure if my stylus is digging / loosening anything in the grooves, it's a good opportunity to get that junk out of there. How about you?
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czarivey
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I only clean them if I spot contamination between grooves. That includes fingerprints. Wherever the fingerprint is the dust gets stuck and can't get airborn out of play surface. Otherwise I use carbon fiber brush before each playback with no professional RCM usage.
I have records in my collection I didn't clean for over 20 years and they still don't need cleaning.
czarivey
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@inna 
Frequent cleaning can destroy smoothness of pressing in other words wax so it WOULD hurt. Cleaning should be as necessary. To me the best sign of cleaning is change to noisier playback or stylus contamination after going with just carbon fiber brush. Other than that, if stylus is clean after playback AND playback is clean, than no need no matter how long.
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