Dear Doug,
You offer an interesting alternative viewpoint on the outcome of record cleaning by saying that cleaning will make records noisier(?)
Let me throw in a few wildcards :
- Countless RCM owners will have waxed lyrical in their assessments about how quiet LPs are after thorough cleaning.
- Check out MF's review of the ADS (scroll down to "so how well does it work?"). Quietness, post-cleaning, is the first comment.
http://www.analogplanet.com/content/worlds-best-record-cleaning-machine#g7I3uVfs2AWgERKf.97
- The stylus, almost as soon as it makes contact, develops a film, an "interference layer" if you will, which may negate those results as playing progresses?
- As above, because the stylus causes the groove to melt and reflow behind it, it throws into question whether a clean groove should be "noisier" or not, given that the most intimate thermal contact is obtainable when clean?
I'm not being critical of you, Doug, as I'm certain your routines are far more thorough than is possible from any automatic RCM. Anyone who dedicates themselves to that level of perfection deserves cleaner records than everyone else ;^)
You offer an interesting alternative viewpoint on the outcome of record cleaning by saying that cleaning will make records noisier(?)
Let me throw in a few wildcards :
- Countless RCM owners will have waxed lyrical in their assessments about how quiet LPs are after thorough cleaning.
- Check out MF's review of the ADS (scroll down to "so how well does it work?"). Quietness, post-cleaning, is the first comment.
http://www.analogplanet.com/content/worlds-best-record-cleaning-machine#g7I3uVfs2AWgERKf.97
- The stylus, almost as soon as it makes contact, develops a film, an "interference layer" if you will, which may negate those results as playing progresses?
- As above, because the stylus causes the groove to melt and reflow behind it, it throws into question whether a clean groove should be "noisier" or not, given that the most intimate thermal contact is obtainable when clean?
I'm not being critical of you, Doug, as I'm certain your routines are far more thorough than is possible from any automatic RCM. Anyone who dedicates themselves to that level of perfection deserves cleaner records than everyone else ;^)