I have cleaned all my vinyl with a spin cleaner and I use a duster before I play, so there is very little dust that gets on the needle while playing, but it is super-sensitive to any dust.

I've recently rekindled my love of vinyl and decided to pull out my Techniques 1200 MKII turntable and started playing my old, and some new, vinyl

And once you put some good vinyl under this needle, it's pretty damn amazing.

Even my older vinyl sounds great.

Again for $99 this seems to me like an excellent investment to improve vinyl sound quality.

I suppose it is good if you like your vinyls to sound warm and muddy, with no detail