Missing Link VP DustBuster Stylus Cleaner

April 18, 2011

Mark Wheeler has posted a review of Missing Link VP DustBuster stylus cleaner (£19) at TNT Audio. His conclusion:

The Missing Link VP Dust Buster seems to be the equal of the ultrasonic cleaner. Peering down an optical microscope I can see no difference between the results from either. Neither attract more nor less dust on next play and surface noise levels are indistinguishable. Missing link offer the images below to illustrate before and after cleaning, which looks like a fairly basic aluminium cantilever and long shank stylus. Such a stylus will be more difficult to clean to the shoulders than a nude diamond on a boron stick (for example) and results were also fine on my Decca, which has no cantilever at all.

You can read the full review here.