Do I also need to clean the needle?

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Do I also need to clean the needle?

Back i the vinyl days I used a carbon fibre brush to keep the vinyl clear of dust & debris. If needed you could dust off the needle too but the vinyl surface is the most important thing.

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Al wrote to Matthew Munson <=-

Do I also need to clean the needle?

Back i the vinyl days I used a carbon fibre brush to keep the vinyl
clear of dust & debris. If needed you could dust off the needle too but the vinyl surface is the most important thing.

Didn't everyone have one of those little velour blocks you'd hold
against the record while it rotated? Between dusty records and oxide
buildup on tape heads, listening to music was an exercise in
maintenance.



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Twas Sunday, November 8th when poindexter FORTRAN said...

Didn't everyone have one of those little velour blocks you'd hold against the record while it rotated?

I still use one of these periodically or just one of those ultra soft no-scratch cloths made for glasses & some cleaner made for vinyl. Works great.


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NuSkooler wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I still use one of these periodically or just one of those ultra soft no-scratch cloths made for glasses & some cleaner made for vinyl. Works great.

Discwasher! I think that was the brand!

I loved record stores - there was something about seeing full-sized
album art when you browsed for music.



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Back i the vinyl days I used a carbon fibre brush to keep the vinyl
clear of dust & debris. If needed you could dust off the needle too but
the vinyl surface is the most important thing.

Didn't everyone have one of those little velour blocks you'd hold
against the record while it rotated?

I never trusted those velour blocks with my vinyl.

Between dusty records and oxide buildup on tape heads, listening to music
was an exercise in maintenance.

Indeed. Replacing needles could be an investment that payed off in sound quality and vinyl life.

You also needed the hardware, amplifiers and speakers.

Back around the late 70's and 80's a spent way to much on all that!

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I loved record stores - there was something about seeing full-sized
album art when you browsed for music.

There are some in your hood such as Amoeba. I love going to good ones around the world. Picadilly Records in Manchester, Sister Ray in London. I even saw some interesting ones in Seattle and Liverpool too.

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Utopian Galt wrote:

There are some in your hood such as Amoeba. I love going to good ones around the world. Picadilly Records in Manchester, Sister Ray in London. I even saw some interesting ones in Seattle and Liverpool too.

My city (Berkeley - SF Bay Area) still has 2 amazing stores for vinyl: Amoeba Records and Rasputin (a block apart!). There are some smaller shops as well, but "owning physical things again" is definitely on the rise. And a good player and speakers make all the difference - those $89 turntables you get on Amazon or at Target are really crap and tinny sounding.

Hunting for rareties and releases is a cool weekend thing to do when it gets rainy and cold here :)

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Utopian Galt wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

There are some in your hood such as Amoeba. I love going to good ones around the world. Picadilly Records in Manchester, Sister Ray in
London. I even saw some interesting ones in Seattle and Liverpool too.

I remember going to Tower Records on a Friday night and starting the
night off browsing records for an hour. Good times.



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J0hnny A1pha wrote to Utopian Galt <=-

My city (Berkeley - SF Bay Area) still has 2 amazing stores for vinyl:

I lived in Albany for a couple of years and spent a lot of time working
in North Berkeley and exploring the university and the city. Good
times.

I work in Oakland a day a week now, was tempted to sneak out early and
go to THE PUB in Albany for a pint. Traffic was horrible, though, and I
have a long drive home.



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Al wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Back around the late 70's and 80's a spent way to much on all that!

I had some cheap Archer/Realistic shit, but it still rocked my world.
I just turned 61, and can remember vividly sitting in my bedroom
growing up, lights down low, Koss headphones on, listening to Rush's
"Moving Pictures" album straight through and being taken somewhere else
by the music.



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