This little gem is a great bargain. No brush is more effective, but you need to use it correctly.

Most importantly, if your record is dirty, do not contaminate your brush with it. You will harm both.

This brush is for new and washed records between plays.

First, hold the brush nearly perpendicular to the record surface, with a slightest of bends with the turn. Wipe the tips the long way GENTLY across a cloth. Do this with the record turning on the turntable and do not press. Twice around does the job. This pass removes any relatively large particles and cat hair.

Then, point the tips of one row AGAINST the direction of turn at a someshat acute angle, as if you were shaving off a thin slice. This does the deep groove cleaning of dust that records attract. Clean the brush as before. Notice how much is left on the cloth.

If you have dirty records, get a liquid cleaner, or at the least, purified water. But every record player needs one of these brushes. Highly recommended!

This is a must have for LP enthusiasts. Sure I have a Nitty Gritty cleaning machine and a plethora of other equipment to clean and maintain my records. This little jewel, however, is a necessity for a quick dust off here and there before playing. It cleanly and efficiently wicks dust and small particles out of the precious LP grooves. If you otherwise maintain clean records this will keep that last second dusting from interfering with your listening pleasure. Somewhat smaller than I anticipated it is nevertheless a great size for sweeping the moving LP surface and the bristle guard/handle doubles as a very effective bristle cleaner simply by rotating it forward and back over the microfiber bristles themselves.

At it’s price there is no reason for anyone who plays LPs to not own this little beauty.

**Please read the edit at the bottom, just keeping the initial portion so you can see my experience**

I’m just starting my own vinyl collection and very soon discovered dust is a major issue, so I went ahead and started looking for a record cleaning brush. This is the one that had the highest rating out of all the places I looked in. Read the reviews and thought it could serve me well (I’m starting with brand new vinyls, so all I need is to brush them off a little in between plays; nothing major – yet) despite the negative comments.

When I got my hands on the brush, I popped-open a new album and proceeded to remove those tiny, little, annoying paper particles from the record’s inner sleeve. The brush didn’t scratch the record at all -as some others say it does- but it did start shedding fibers after the fourth swipe… is not that bad since you can still remove them using the brush itself (they don’t stick to the record) but that’s just something you don’t expect with an item you’re using for the first time.

Overall the brush works, but the build quality leaves quite some room for improvement. I won’t go as far as not recommending the item, but maybe there are some higher quality brushes out there.
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EDIT: Ok, I’m done with this brush… it DOES scratch the vinyl!! AND the fibers are getting stuck in the grooves… after brushing the A-side (disc 1) of the red vinyl edition of The Killer’s Battle Born, I noticed some popping. Checked the needle and it had some bristles stuck in it.

Picked-up the record for better examination and noticed some fibers were in the grooves. Right then realized the inner portion of the disc (near the label) had some scratches… brushed a spotless portion of that area and saw how the scratches appeared (if you think I did it too hard, well, don’t. I was super gentle)… granted, they are small and not audible, but WHY a product supposedly designed to help you protect your records is actually damaging them is beyond me…

I’m looking into other options to help me clean my records. If you want my advice, stay away from this brush…