Perfect Vinyl Forever

@lewm - There is usually residual paper substance on the surface from paper, non-polylined sleeves. I understand that there can be substance residual just from the pressing process itself. These will usually not be that noticeable but it depends on your system and its sensitivity to surface noise. I just make it part of my record process - I open the record, run it through the DeGritter for a few minutes, and I'm good to go... Some people do the cleaning several times before they play even a new record for the first time, but once should be fine.

Larsman, I really didn’t ask my question in order to start an argument, but one must admit that “residual paper substance” and “substance residual from the pressing process” are not very specific phrases. Nevertheless I realize that many do as you do , cleaning brand new LPs. I just still wonder why.

I run all new albums through my vacuum cleaner. At first did it because “it was recommended”. Then I started seeing how much stuff was coming off, and if I didn’t, I could hear it and would have to stop playing and clear it. 

From the website-

"When a vinyl record is pressed using heat and high pressure, the soft waxy and oily plasticizer compounds that are added to the base PVC polymer leave a layer on the surface of the record. This layer obscures micro-details of the groove."

What are these micro details- eye blinking and shoulder shrugging of the musicians?

T

@jw944ts 

I may know someone that has used the service.  I was killing time yesterday in a lp store in Oak Park, Il, and ran into a former colleague doing the same that I hadn’t seen in years.  Turns out he is a vinylphiliac and we got around to discussing record cleaning.  He mentioned that he found a service “outside of Milwaukee “ but he couldn’t remember the name.  He has a child who has moved there and so he does his drop offs and pick ups around his visits to his grandkids, so no mailing in lps for him.  He likes the results.  Not sure if this is the company that you are inquiring about, but PFF is located in Wauwatosa, a Milwaukee suburb