More on the Onzow Zerodust

Next time I might give 3 sentences  ACR.

richmon, The particles of dust or debris attracted by the MC magnet structure would have to be ferrous, I think we would agree.  So where is ferrous material going to come from in the typical listening environment?  Also, any such dust would stick to the cartridge body, not to the stylus or the cantilever.  In my experience, I have not ever seen dust or particles accumulating on a cartridge body, except incidentally.  Like some others, I keep thinking there is something missing from this Onzow Zero Dust story.  I use Magic Eraser, and I have a good microscope.  When this scare about OZD was first called to my attention, I started examining my own cartridges.  They all look exceptionally clean, both cantilever and styli.  I dip the stylus into ME before every side of every LP. Carefully and only in the vertical direction, up- down- up.

I only have a 40X jewelers loupe to examine my cartridge. When this Onzow issue first was reported, I noticed similar looking 'dots' of whiteish grey spots on the cantilever and cartridge body magnets, while gently trying to scrape them off, I noticed how strong the magnetic attraction was on the bottom of the cart body (Audio technica ART9), Dunno if the Onzow debris  is ferrous, something in my environment dust (did have kitchen remodeled recently) but for the last month have been using a photography lens brush mainly with the Onzow every 10 days or so and no longer see these whitish grey dots.

I agree, there's more to the story and just wanted to inject the magnetic part to the considering, my VPI prime does not have a dust cover so that's part of my environmental dust concerns. Gonna turn my hepa air filter back on.

On a a lark, googled 'is dust magnetic' , appears there's some studies that show it can be: My previous residence was at the top of a hill close to an I95 beltway, the constant tire grinding up the road debris made this weird fine dust settle on my outside windows and I had to clean them more regularly, it was really a fine dust. Anywave, just trying to add info to this Onzow thing.

There's no way the Onzow is ferrous, and like others have been saying, magnetism wouldn't cause anything to stick to the non-magnetic cantilever & stylus anyways. When you see the horror-show "before" pics from rebuilders, all the dark ferrous debris is aggregated on the magnetic parts like the front yoke/pole piece and maybe the coil former (except if ruby). And for that - I don't really know where the ferrous debris would have come from, either...that's an interesting one to ponder.