Engineered for Long-haul Use and Longer-haul Listening Seasoned and casual collectors of vinyl records understand the importance of safeguarding your sound, but all too often are cartridges and styli overlooked, and for understandable reasons: they’re delicate components that need to be properly calibrated to produce sound and avoid damaging your records. Fortunately, Audio-Technica’s AT617a Cartridge Stylus Cleaner was developed to assuage this issue, thanks to decades of full-spectrum turntable and DJ expertise. The AT617a features a polyurethane gel that was meticulously engineered with a special formulation to carefully remove dust or dirt particles from the tip of your stylus.