Regular cleaning will considerably increase the useful life of the needle (stylus). KEEP YOUR RECORDS & STYLUS CLEAN: The First thing to know about playing vinyl records, is that playing a dirty record or playing the record with a Stylus that has picked up dust deposits from the record's surface, will negatively affect the sound quality, as the stylus may not sit properly in the record's groove.so regularly brush off records with a Anti Static Record Brush AND clean the stylus with a specially developed Stylus Cleaning Brush.
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