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2nd Dec 2021, 10:50 PM
	Break-In Master Member since Dec 2013 250 Points	Yeah, I know it's not the best idea in the world but, in some cases, it CAN help a lot. There's been a few records that, even brand new, skip over a groove but, I've discovered that, if I spin it backwards just over that part it keeps skipping, it seems to "heal" the opening between the grooves (kind like there's a door left open that the needle always goes through from one groove to the next and, by playing it backwards, the needle closes that door) and stops it from skipping. I'll be playing an otherwise very clean record and suddenly, there a loud pop from a spec of dust in the groove! If I run the needle through that spot backwards, sometimes it take a few tries, it'll dredge out that spec of dust and remove the pop. When I used to use D3 Discwasher, I noticed that it was actually putting gunk IN the grooves rather than removing them!! I noticed it gave records a cloudy blue tint to them, too!! I bought a brand new copy of "Abbey Road" back in the `80's and, by the third playing, after using that shit to clean it each time, it sounded MUCH worse than my old copy from the `60's that I played the hell out of!! I washed the new copy with soap and warm water several times but it hardly did any good! My only other option was to spin the entire thing backwards in hopes the needle would scrape out all that garbage. It did the job, but I had to do it SEVERAL times and it's STILL not as good as it should be!! I might get 1/4 into the side (spinning backwards) and the needle would start skipping across the record. Upon inspection, I noticed there was a HUGE gob of that shit on the needle preventing it from even coming in contact with the record, anymore!! Needless to say, I stopped using D3 from that point on!! Maybe I'll try the wood glue trick to clean the rest of that garbage out of the grooves. I haven't even bothered playing that album since then!