Microscopic Stylus Cleaning Revisited - Audio Technica AT617a and Hudson Hi-Fi UV Stylus Cleaner

I have officially revisited the last Microscopic Stylus Cleaning video. In today's video we will be scientifically testing the Audio Technica AT617a Cartridge Stylus Cleaner and the Hudson Hi Stylus Cleaner. The Hudson is a UV Ultrasonic Stylus Cleaner that is available for only $35 and the Audio Technica Stylus Cleaner is also $35 and very similar to an Onzow Zerodust Stylus Cleaner.

We will be gunking up both the Ortofon 2M Black and Audio Technica PTG 33 II cartridges to show how that different stylus types like a shibata stylus and microline stylus react to different cleaning methods. I will be using my trusty Fisher MT-6330 turntable to contaminate the styli using some pretty disgusting vinyl specimens and then cleaning them using various methods.

Products Used in This Video
Hudson HiFi UV Stylus Cleaner
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AT 617a Stylus Cleaner
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USB Microscope:
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Ortofon Stylus Brush
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Magic Eraser Sheets
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Ortofon 2M Black
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Audio Technica PTG33II
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00:00 Intro
02:51 Soiling the Styli
04:35 Ortofon 2M Black Soiled First Run under the scope
05:30 Hudson Hifi Stylus Cleaner Unboxing
07:42 Using the Hudson Hifi Cleaner on the 2M Black
09:14 Hudson Hifi Results under the microscope
10:56 Second Gunking of 2M Black under the scope
12:44 Audio Technica AT617a Stylus Gel Unboxing
15:30 Audio Technica AT617a Stylus Gel Cleaning
17:00 Audio Technica AT617a Stylus Gel under the microscope after clean
19:03 Post AT617a Cleaning of the 2M Black under the microscope
20:14 AT617a Cleaning of the 2M Black under the microscope repeated
20:53 Magic Eraser after the initial Gel cleaning
22:10 Post Magic eraser stylus cleaning microscope inspection
24:15 dry brushing and results
25:41 Final soiling of the 2M Black
26:08 Dry brush first
26:27 Inspection of stylus brush under the microscope
27:52 2M Black back under the scope
28:32 Microscope Results after brushing and then AT617a cleaner
29:27 Trying Magic Eraser to attempt to finally clean
31:06 Final Hudson Hifi Cleaning of the 2M Black
31:52 Brushing results after the Hudson
33:50 Setup of Audio Technica PTG 33 II Stylus
34:43 PTG 33 II gunked up under the microscope
35:31 Initial clean of PTG 33 II with AT617a Stylus Gel
37:12 AT617a results of PTG 33 II
37:41 Hudson Hifi Cleaning of the PTG 33 II after regunk
38:45 Results of Hudson and PTG 33 under the microscope
40:04 Wrap up and final thoughts

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Microscopic Stylus Cleaning Revisited - Audio Technica AT617a and Hudson Hi-Fi UV Stylus Cleaner

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