Coming Soon - Blue Horizon Record Brush

[Jac Hawk]

The first of these I remember was the Decca one without pivoted handle. The forst ones shed badly, but this was sorted in future batches and my second one from a year or two later (still 1980 or so) is fine. So is my pivoted Path brush in a fetching golden colour instead of the bright aluminium finish of most others. This latter one is currently used daily.

I've got one of the Decca brushes too Dave, in my opinion the bristles are a little too soft, so it takes a bit longer to do a good job on yer vinyl, but it is very affective

[Beobloke]

Like David, I'm a little bemused that some folk who wouldn't bat an eyelid at spending £40 or £50 on, for example, one new audiophile pressing on vinyl, are baulking at coughing up a mere £20 for a record brush....

Jeez, we've spent more on the wine for our dinner this evening - get a grip, people!!

Marco.

As the maker of the original comment in the other thread, I have to say that I have absolutely no problem with anyone spending as much as they want on whatever they want, if they are happy with their purchase. I know I'm as guilty as the next person of occasionally spending a certain amount on something when something cheaper would do the job and, in this case, £20 certainly isn't breaking the bank.

You've got to admit, though, it does look "uncannily similar" to other brushes available!

Oh, and I stand by my comments regarding the Furutech makeup brush...

[MCRU]

As the maker of the original comment in the other thread, I have to say that I have absolutely no problem with anyone spending as much as they want on whatever they want, if they are happy with their purchase. I know I'm as guilty as the next person of occasionally spending a certain amount on something when something cheaper would do the job and, in this case, £20 certainly isn't breaking the bank.

You've got to admit, though, it does look "uncannily similar" to other brushes available!

Oh, and I stand by my comments regarding the Furutech makeup brush...

Adam,
Feel guilty and buy a brush, go on you know you want one...

[etphonehome]

I have the generic designed brush mentioned here...but I found this brush to be more effective in removing dust and as well as static, paid £50.00 for it when it was on sale:
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8909

[MCRU]

I have the generic designed brush mentioned here...but I found this brush to be more effective in removing dust and as well as static, paid £50.00 for it when it was on sale:
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8909

things are much cheaper in the far east!

[Marco]

Hi Adam,

As the maker of the original comment in the other thread, I have to say that I have absolutely no problem with anyone spending as much as they want on whatever they want, if they are happy with their purchase. I know I'm as guilty as the next person of occasionally spending a certain amount on something when something cheaper would do the job and, in this case, £20 certainly isn't breaking the bank.

You've got to admit, though, it does look "uncannily similar" to other brushes available!

And I've already explained why that's likely the case about three times, but people seem to be selectively ignoring it!!

Do I have to type it in big bold red letters before folk will pay attention??

Oh, and I stand by my comments regarding the Furutech makeup brush...

Lol... That one's more difficult to justify. In terms of material value, it's undoubtedly poor, but in terms of its effectiveness at removing and reducing static build-up on records, for me, it's worth every penny - as nothing else I've used on the market gets even close to doing as good a job!

If you're really serious about keeping your records in pristine condition and ready to achieve the highest fidelity during playback, then for me, the Furutech brush is a must. Its SOLE purpose is static removal. I don't use it for actually cleaning records. The bristles are too soft to do a proper job.

View the Furutech brush as part of a meticulous record care programme. All my records, new and old, receive the following treatment when purchased:


1) Thorough cleaning on the VPI RCM (I usually spend a minimum of five minutes cleaning both sides of each record). New records are cleaned simply to remove mould release agent, dust and static - the latter which the usual supplied scratchy and horrible white paper record sleeves help not one iota.

2) Then when totally dry, both sides of the record are brushed with the Furutech, whilst being spun round on the VPI, to remove any built-up static from the cleaning process.

3) Just to make sure, I then give both sides of the record a quick zap with a Milty Zerostat gun.

4) The shining clean, pristine, static-free record is then popped inside a Nagaoka anti-static sleeve, ready to use.

5) Before playing, I spin the record on the platter and brush it with the Furutech brush, to remove any slight static build up, as a result of removing the record from its sleeve, so I know that I have a squeaky-clean, totally static-free record, ready for playing!


The result is then the most noise-free vinyl you'll ever hear, virtually as silent during playback of music, as a CD. And that's the sort of standard I demand!

Marco.

[Jac Hawk]

what you need to do is buy a cheap brush off ebay and the blue horizon then do a side by side comparison, and be honest with yourself, if the blue horizon is better, then it's better, and all they have accomplished by using generic parts is give the doubters a reason not to buy it.

I await Marco's report on it's quality and effectiveness with baited breath and 20 quid literally burning a hole in my pocket.

[sq225917]

Let's be honest with ourselves here. If what you need is a gadget to push dust around your records and flick some around the lip onto the underside of the record then a carbon fibre brush is just the ticket. ;-)

If however you want to clean the dust, grime, grunge, finger prints and mythical release agent from your vinyl then you need to buy yourselves a record cleaning machine.


There is of course the middle road that lies in between these two extremes of price and ease of use. Anti static record sleeves, if you aren't use polylined sleeves or better, then why bother with a brush or RCM your records will never ever be clean.

So start saving, you need all three, brush, polysleeves and RCM..

[Rare Bird]

I bought a different type of thing from an hi-fi show in the mid 80's (i can't for the life of me remember it's name ) It was about four inch diameter more like rough red velvet powder puff, cream moulded top with finger grip, it was in a cream circular plastic container with clear plastic dome lid cost quite a bit & was brilliant better than the carbon fibre brush.

[Thing Fish]

Call me strange but I just put them on the turntable and listen to them. Pops and all.

I don't have a problem with the odd crackle and its few and far between believe you me.

That's part of the beauty of vinyl for me. The mutual symbiosis if you like.

But hey i'm weird.