I used to go to a very nice record store near Chicago and the owner was always wiping his records with one of those clothes .Used to make me shudder. Use a carbon fiber brush. A cloth can't get into the grooves. What it can do is grind dust and other undesirable substances down into them. Then along comes your stylus and wear and damage.
Micro Fiber Cloth for Record Cleaning
Anyone using these? Someone on the Steriophile forum suggested that they're superior to carbon fiber brush. I bought a bag of 25 at Sam's today and started using them. They do indeed seem to get down in the groves. I played several brand new records which I hadn't scrubbed with Disc Doctor fluid and brushes and all were VERY quiet. I tried wiping the carbon fiber brush with micro fiber cloth and it did seem to clean the brush well, but the brush didn't grab into the grooves as well.
Be careful. One slipped out my hands and went spinning toward my one-hour old Sumiko Blackbird. Thankfully I grabbed the cloth before it wrecked the bird.
Dave
Be careful. One slipped out my hands and went spinning toward my one-hour old Sumiko Blackbird. Thankfully I grabbed the cloth before it wrecked the bird.
Dave