ackersviller@watmath.UUCP (Paul Ackersviller) (11/01/84)
All of this discussion about stylus cleaners began a few weeks ago when someone asked whether anyone had acheived the intended results from the use of Stylast. However, no one who has replied even knows what its purpose is (with the possible exception of the owner of the broken stylus, who didn't say much else), including one person who's using it. True, Stylast does come with a brush similar to the Discwasher one, but the "thermodynamic stylus treatment" fluid is what you are really paying for. It is claimed to "greatly reduce stylus friction while increasing cantilever suspension life". Certain dealers also claim that Stylast treatment also provides audibly superior performance. While the difference is subtle at best, it presumably one of many benefits that results from improved tracking ability. The fluid is meant to be applied before the playing of each record side, but AFTER cleaning the stylus with the brush. Someone out there, whom I won't name to save him possible embarassment, is performing this procedure backwards and using the treatment as a cleaning fluid. I suggest that this person go to the trouble of reading the instructions sometime. In answer to the original query of some time ago, I will say that I have been using Stylast for the better part of a year and wear of my stylus seems to have slowed down, but it is difficult to evaluate by how much just yet.
herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services) (11/06/84)
Regardless of whether or not Stylast a really a cleaner, you use two different
solutions on your stylus. In other words, you are cleaning it twice as
hard and will have a cleaner stylus. This alone will reduce record and stylus
wear, all else being equal. As for Stylast being more than just a cleaner,
I have yet to hear about a substance that is several molecules thick
that doesn't wear off immediately upon first play.
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