Editors' Choice Award 2024 – The Absolute Sound Magazine
"This new and improved version of AudioQuest’s ubiquitous carbon-fiber wonder has 'ideal conductivity from the Carbon Fibers.' On first acquaintance, the only change JV noted was that the brush feels different (lighter and a bit flimsier) than the original. But who cares? You’re going to buy one; JV’s gonna buy one; anyone who listens to vinyl is gonna buy one. The thing is indispensable."
- The Absolute Sound, December 2024
Highly Recommended - fidelity-magazine.com
"Thanks to the Anti-Static, the LP no longer features that annoying crackling and now sounds much more nuanced and dynamic than before… Highly recommended, so that’s why it’s allowed to touch all my vinyl gems."
- Harald Wittig, fidelity-magazine.com
"AudioQuest's carbon fiber brush, in production for thirty five years, has been the industry "standard" dry record brush. If you have the one pictured above, please throw it out or donate it to a really needy record collector. You should replace it with AudioQuest's new carbon fiber brush."
"Company founder Bill Low eventually realized that the original brush, along with most others, doesn't provide a good electrical path between the fibers and the handle, which is the static electricity 'ground' discharge point to your hand."
"The new brush has what the company calls 'ideal conductivity' from the carbon fibers, through the brush's internal parts to the conductive gold contacts placed close to your fingers, which is where they need to be."
"Does it work better than the old brush? You have to axe?"
- Michael Fremer, analogplanet.com, March 30 2017