Onzo Zero Dust... Deflated?

mijostyn

... It will leave a residue on your stylus which you will transfer to your records the everything will stick to everything ...

I've not heard that complaint about Zero Dust. Are you simply speculating, or do you you have actual experience with the product?

If your records are clean the only thing you need to keep your stylus clean is an artist's brush.

That will work for everyone who plays records in a "clean room." For those of us who live in domestic environments, even a pristine LP will eventually accumulate dust.

If you use a grounded sweep arm and a dust cover you will never have to clean them again.

That is quite mistaken, but I'll let you prove that to yourself:

If the stylus collects something the brush can't get off the a solution of 25% 91% isopropyl alcohol in distilled water using the same brush will take it off ...

If your records are truly clean there will be no dust for the stylus to collect. By the time a stylus visibly accumulates dust you've changed its effective VTF (because the force is distributed along a wider area), you've potentially ground some of that dust into the LP itself, and the dust has likely accelerated stylus wear.

mijostyn

Cleeds, we seem to be perpetually miss understanding each other.

I don’t think we have any misunderstanding. You insist that a new LP is inherently clean, presumably because it is "new." I know that LPs are not made in clean rooms and that most - to one degree or another - are not truly clean but contaminated with some dust. You think that once an LP is clean by your standard, it will remain clean for all eternity so long as it has been handled properly. I contend that for those of us who live in domestic environments, it will eventually attract dust. You seem to acknowledge that only in part, but insist your turntable’s conductive sweep arm will remove the dust. Yet you are at a loss to explain how dust can accumulate on your stylus if your LP and room are free of dust.

You’ve also argued strongly that changing a pickup arm’s VTA will also change its azimuth. I contend that as long as the arm was properly designed and installed, the two angles are completely independent.

Your arguments can be proven false: Dust can be seen with the naked eye and azimuth can actually be measured. Yet you cling to your notions. That’s no problem for me, but it’s no misunderstanding, either.