Up til now, I haven’t intentionally set out to find bizarre vinyl LP cleaning methods, but they keep appearing. Clearly this is some kind of signal given to me by the great gods of vinyl that I’m supposed to share these with the masses, so here is another video of an LP cleaning technique I personally will NEVER EVER use.
–Joe Wallace
Does anybody reading this blog actually OWN one of these? Behold the Milty Zerostat, advertised as a dust-remover for vinyl records. It shoots out a stream of ions when you pull the trigger–ions that are supposed to rid your LPs of nasty pops and clicks caused by dust (which is attracted by an electrostatic charge on your records).
The Zerostat, according to the marketing hype, removes the electrostatic charge that attracts the dust. Zap the album, clean it off, and play away! So sayeth the hype. Does this actually work? I’d love to get a first-person report. At a triple-digit price tag, this one looks like it’s a collector-only gadget, but I’d love to see it in action and hear the results.