Fair enough, Larry. I didn't realize that was a limitation.
My experience and that of record collectors who also use this product for LPs and 78s with whom I've discussed it has/have been universally positive. Most of that number use it in preference to any of the formula's out there, past and present.
Steve Smolian
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 12:23 PM
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Subject: [ARSCLIST] Lacquer Disc Cleaning Fluid Test
If the study my friend Steven mentions below is the one I think it is, it's important to clarify that the study was about cleaning lacquer discs ONLY. The cleaning of vinyl or shellac discs was not tested. That doesn't mean that fluid "X," which did a good job of cleaning lacquers, wouldn't also do a good job of cleaning vinyl or shellac, only that it's dangerous to assume or infer that it would or that it wouldn't merely based upon a limited study which didn't include tests on those types of discs.
The opinions expressed are mine alone and not those of the Library of Congress.
Larry Miller
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Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 9:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Cleaning stylus
The results of the Library of Congress' rigorous testing of record cleaning products were presented by them at a recent ARSC Conference- last year of that of the previous one.
Though not named, the product that best the others, and by a considerable margin, was Disc Doctor. There are legal reasons such Government testing does not identify products going back to NSIT's earlier days. The presentation was made in such way, however, that it was murkily clear that Disc Doctor prevailed, and this was confirmed to me privately elsewhere.
Steven Smolian
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