Last STYLAST Stylus Treatment 0.25 oz Bottle

Recommended Component 2025 – Stereophile

Improve Stylus Life

Extend and improve the life of your stylus with #5 STYLAST Stylus Treatment. STYLAST dramatically reduces the friction at the stylus/groove interface, resulting in extended stylus life, reduced distortion, increased tracking ability, and reduced record wear.

STYLAST Stylus Treatment is effective through the entire play of one side of an LP record. A bottle typically lasts 3-4 years for most users.

"Recommended Component" Honors

Stereophile honored STYLAST by awarding it the magazine's coveted Recommended Component status for 2025.

According to Stereophile, STYLAST is a "stylus treatment designed to reduce friction between groove and phono cartridge…. MF [analog guru Michael Fremer] has found STYLAST effective…"

"Outstanding"

"I bought some new Stylast and did some tests with my trusty sound analysis software," reports safulop, head-fi.org. "The results are pretty interesting and rather glaring. There is an easily measurable reduction in the noise floor from using Stylast, anywhere from 5 to 10 dB depending on the frequency band. Considering there are so many differences in audio we can measure but not hear, and other things we can hear but are very hard to measure, it's nice when one just supports the other this way."

"I religiously use both the cleaner and preservative with outstanding results. 25 years out of my last DV MR23RS and 6 on my 'new' XX2 MkII," raves effischer, audiogon.com, June 13, 2017. "I've also found their vinyl cleaners and preservative excellent products. LPs I purchased new and used their stuff on right out of the shrink wrap sound as good now as they did then."

Extending Stylus Life

Two characteristics determine stylus lifetime: physical wear of the stylus contact faces, and the condition of the stylus suspension system. Stylast addresses both of these failure types.

Over time, wear of the contact faces becomes apparent as noise and distortion, and as seen with microscopic examination. To prevent wear to the stylus, STYLAST behaves similar to a microscopic gas bearing. As the record plays, STYLAST transforms into a gas at the point of contact, reducing friction and also dissipating heat.

Hardening of the elastomeric components through oxidation and loss of plasticizers causes stylus suspension failure. In the worst cases this results in collapse of the suspension. STYLAST Stylus Treatment addresses these failure types. Although Stylast is applied to the stylus tip, its extraordinarily low surface tension allows it to work its way upward over time along the stylus cantilever towards the suspension. Stylast absorbs into the elastomeric suspension and prevents it from hardening due to age, heat, atmospheric pollutants, dry air, or harsh cleaners.

Use Stylast on Every Play

Use Stylast on every play, and clean your stylus with LAST Stylus Cleaner whenever you detect dirt or mis-tracking.

Size: 0.25 oz.