cjfrbw
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I'd once used LAST rec.preserve, but no longer (although I still have some).
When I see that little round LAST sticker on a used album for purchase, it gives me pause. I have some LAST records that play quite nicely, hundreds of plays later, without much change sonically. However, some are so filled with noise, no further amount of cleaning helps. Also, I've had some funky cleaning adventures with used LAST LPs. On some vinyl, a day or two after vacuum cleaning, on closer inspection, it appears as if an oily substance leaked from the grooves. Many of those required aggressive cleaning in order to achieve useable results.
Applying LAST properly, requires it be applied post a very thorough vacuum clean. Otherwise, the noise may LAST the lifetime of LP.
Yup, I got a nice set of Deutsche Grammaphon completely LASTed with sticker and all. I thought I had scored.
They were nearly unplayable due to noise and I could see gunk scraped by the needle. They were also no longer cleanable that I could tell from any modality that I could use. They were basically junked and I tossed them as casualties to snake oil wishful thinking.
I remember some very expensive contact cleaner that was supposed to be the audiophile's bees knees called Tweek. I left it in the bottle for a year, and some kind of oily, sticky smudge settled out of it. Nostrums for the obsessive.
I barely clean records any more, just brush. I don't think it is such a good idea to invade the surfaces with detergents and solvents unless there is no alternative to saving the record. I think you can remove surface plasticizers with all the "dirt" and make things not so hot for the grooves in some instances.