"Records attract no dust and require no cleaning"
Dear Kelly, I beg to differ. LPs develop significant static charge on their surfaces. And static charge attracts dust and holds it until the charge is dissipated. There are several causes, such as removing and replacing the LP in a paper sleeve (the friction that occurs because of sliding contact between paper and vinyl can induce a charge) and transfer by touch of the static charge on our bodies that develops when we walk across a wool carpet to approach the turntable, to the LP. These phenomena are well documented; it’s not just a matter of my opinion. What treatments or preventatives really work well to prevent or dissipate existing charge, now there’s the rub and the meat of many arguments. Shure Corporation showed that static charge can increase VTF by as much as 0.25 to 0.5g (somewhere in there; I forget their exact calculation).