Quiet Turntable

[jrtrent]

@Ken Boyd and @jqp I got the Pyle and am happy to say it works great!

My brother uses a Pyle PP444 to plug his turntable into a Bose Wave radio, and he's happy with his model, too.

I think I need to clean the stylist and do some tweaking with the counter weights but it sounds awesome. Thank you very much!

If you haven't purchased a stylus brush yet, I've found brushes like the one Ortofon sells to work well. I just follow the directions on their website, which is to give the stylus a few swipes at the end of each record side, and I've had no dirty stylus issues to deal with. I've seen similar brushes at lower prices from Pro-Ject, Beat Breakerz, and Pfanstiehl.

Stylus Brush, Fiber

Use the Ortofon Stylus fiber brush a few times along the cantilever in the direction of the stylus tip whenever you play a new record or change sides.

ortofon.com

"Use Ortofon Stylus fiber brush a few times along the cantilever in the direction of the stylus tip whenever you play a new record or change sides. Use the brush in the forward direction from the rear of the cartridge toward the stylus tip and never from stylus tip to the rear of the cartridge and never from side to side. Following this treatment there will normally be no need for further stylus cleaning."

 

[Liboy12]

My brother uses a Pyle PP444 to plug his turntable into a Bose Wave radio, and he's happy with his model, too.

If you haven't purchased a stylus brush yet, I've found brushes like the one Ortofon sells to work well. I just follow the directions on their website, which is to give the stylus a few swipes at the end of each record side, and I've had no dirty stylus issues to deal with. I've seen similar brushes at lower prices from Pro-Ject, Beat Breakerz, and Pfanstiehl.

Stylus Brush, Fiber

Use the Ortofon Stylus fiber brush a few times along the cantilever in the direction of the stylus tip whenever you play a new record or change sides.

ortofon.com

"Use Ortofon Stylus fiber brush a few times along the cantilever in the direction of the stylus tip whenever you play a new record or change sides. Use the brush in the forward direction from the rear of the cartridge toward the stylus tip and never from stylus tip to the rear of the cartridge and never from side to side. Following this treatment there will normally be no need for further stylus cleaning."

I was going to just do this cleaning kit off of Amazon. You think this would be good?

Vinyl Record Cleaning Kit - Complete 7-in-1 Vinyl Record Cleaner Solution - Velvet Brush - Microfiber Brush - Stylus Brush - Label Protector - Air Blower - Duster for Velvet Brush, Restore LPs Album https://a.co/d/2UpgtkC

 

[jrtrent]

I was going to just do this cleaning kit off of Amazon. You think this would be good?

Vinyl Record Cleaning Kit - Complete 7-in-1 Vinyl Record Cleaner Solution - Velvet Brush - Microfiber Brush - Stylus Brush - Label Protector - Air Blower - Duster for Velvet Brush, Restore LPs Album https://a.co/d/2UpgtkC

Well, I have rather odd prejudices when it comes to record cleaning. For many years I didn't clean records at all, following this advice from my turntable manufacturer:

"Most record cleaning devices do more harm than good. The dust that inevitably collects on records is not harmful: it's on the surface, not in the grooves containing the signal. Attempts to remove the dust usually force the dust down into the grooves, where it does damage. The best method of cleaning records is to let the stylus remove the dust then clean it." (excerpt from "How to Care for Records" as found in the Linn Magazine)

However, when new records faded out and used records (often rather dirty from the bargain bins) were my main source for new-to-me music, I took the advice of my Linn dealer to buy a Nitty Gritty vacuum style record cleaner. HIs opinion was that the vacuum extraction of fluid and dirt worked well, so such a cleaner actually removed dust and other debris on the record surface and in the groove, not just pushing more dust down into the groove like a simple record brush or cloth might do. At present, I use a KAB EV-1 with Nitty Gritty fluids and brushes; the KAB unit is a fraction of the cost of a Nitty Gritty in part because it does not have a built-in vacuum; I hook up my Orek hand-held vacuum to it to provide the suction.

The EV-1 and Ortofon type stylus brush are all I use. I clean every record I buy on the EV-1, but I don't re-clean it unless I mishandled it and got my fingers on the record groove. Once cleaned, I just pull a record out of its sleeve and play it--no dusting with a potentially harmful carbon fiber brush--and use the stylus brush at the end of each side.