Customer Reviews

AudioQuest Anti-Static record cleaner brush

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3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

This little gem is a great bargain. No brush is more effective, but you need to use it correctly.

Most importantly, if your record is dirty, do not contaminate your brush with it. You will harm both.

This brush is for new and washed records between plays.

First, hold the brush nearly perpendicular to the record surface, with a slightest of bends with the turn. Wipe the tips the long way GENTLY across a cloth. Do this with the record turning on the turntable and do not press. Twice around does the job. This pass removes any relatively large particles and cat hair.

Then, point the tips of one row AGAINST the direction of turn at a someshat acute angle, as if you were shaving off a thin slice. This does the deep groove cleaning of dust that records attract. Clean the brush as before. Notice how much is left on the cloth.

If you have dirty records, get a liquid cleaner, or at the least, purified water. But every record player needs one of these brushes. Highly recommended!

This is a must have for LP enthusiasts. Sure I have a Nitty Gritty cleaning machine and a plethora of other equipment to clean and maintain my records. This little jewel, however, is a necessity for a quick dust off here and there before playing. It cleanly and efficiently wicks dust and small particles out of the precious LP grooves. If you otherwise maintain clean records this will keep that last second dusting from interfering with your listening pleasure. Somewhat smaller than I anticipated it is nevertheless a great size for sweeping the moving LP surface and the bristle guard/handle doubles as a very effective bristle cleaner simply by rotating it forward and back over the microfiber bristles themselves.

At it's price there is no reason for anyone who plays LPs to not own this little beauty.

This brush does more or less what it says it does. It's useful for lifting stray fibers and dust off of your records, but not much more. It is certainly not a product for cleaning dirty records. The instructions are extremely vague, and one should expect to have to figure this thing out on their own. Even still, it isn't that difficult to use. The brush is a decent purchase in the end due to the fact that there isn't much else out there that could do its job.

As has been said, this brush is not for cleaning dirty records! If you have dirty LPs, you need to clean them first with something else. There are products for that, this isn't one of them. This is for your clean vinyl to brush before and after playing. The carbon fiber bristles are dust magnets and will pick up anything from cat hair to very small dust -- and it does it extremely well. This keeps clean vinyl -- clean. In that regard it's simply excellent! I am a very happy user!

This brush is amazing. I thought it was going to be hard fibers which I wondered how would they not scratch the record. Actually the fibers are super soft and they dig out dirt I didn't even know was on my records. Even old records once passed over with the brush are shining like new, that's how good this brush is.

Well I bought this just because dust is everywhere and tends to collect on my vinyls. The first time I used it I took out an old jazz album that was pretty dusty, and surprisingly it picked up a lot of stuff! I then got a newer vinyl that is kept very clean (yet had a little dust on it) just to see how it works with that. After a few spins, it seemed to collect like 97% of the dust! The design is nice, but it could have been made out of metal or something. Still it works great, and I use it all the time (sometimes on my computer screen too). I hate you dust...

I got this to clean my records prior to digitizing with a USB turntable. First I used a swiffer duster to get most of the dust off, followed by a couple of passes with the Audioquest.

There isn't much to say about this brush. It'll do what you need it to do. It's also great for cleaning off lcd computer monitors and tv screens.

At this price, I would have expected more from the product, especially considering it loses (micro thin hair like) bristles easily, which can be difficult to remove from the record using the brush itself.

An excellent companion to a wet record cleaning system (the kind with a soft velvety brush or pad that you dribble some cleaning solution on and then drag across a record). Use the wet pad on grubby records---I find that thrift-store finds sometimes need a few cycles---and then use the AudioQuest brush every time you take a record out of the jacket, to get rid of surface dust. It's not a miracle treatment, but it will often make records you thought were permanently full of clicks and pops sound good again.