Interesting comments. Is the Milty Zerostat the same as the original as sold by discwasher? I read the comment above about pointing the gun away upon release, and the musicdirect site ad which says to hold the gun about 2 inches from the disc. Didn't jive with what I remembered, so I pulled out my old original discwasher Zerostat, and the instructions state, "The Zerostat must be within 12 inches of the 'target area.' Pointed at this range at the target area, the large trigger of the Zerostat should be pulled very slowly. And then released very slowly." ...
then, "WHAT IT IS
Zerostat is a small pistol using a piezo electric module which emits literally millions of positive ions upon trigger squeeze - and then millions of negative ions upon trigger release. Thus both positive and negative static charges are neutralized - a distinct advantage over radioactive strip emitters [anybody see these for sale today?] which give off only positive ions."
I've always had good results using as described. I agree with Smholl and others - probably need a good cleaning. And then there is the question of the quality of new vinyl releases in general. Many of my old vinyl discs sound much better than recent (expensive) purchases - but that's another topic....
then, "WHAT IT IS
Zerostat is a small pistol using a piezo electric module which emits literally millions of positive ions upon trigger squeeze - and then millions of negative ions upon trigger release. Thus both positive and negative static charges are neutralized - a distinct advantage over radioactive strip emitters [anybody see these for sale today?] which give off only positive ions."
I've always had good results using as described. I agree with Smholl and others - probably need a good cleaning. And then there is the question of the quality of new vinyl releases in general. Many of my old vinyl discs sound much better than recent (expensive) purchases - but that's another topic....