if I buy an ultrasonic cleaner for my records will I be able to hear the difference?


I have a lot of records and have cleaned some of them with a VPI vacuum machine. My system is quite nice  but not ultra high end ( turntable about $2K and the rest to match) .Will I be able to hear the difference , with my system or is it just for those who can afford the very best?
rrm
At Degritter site you can hear the comparison before cleaned and cleaned record.

Although the recording is not particularly good you can still hear that on the non cleaned one you have focused presentation, with piano, vocal, accordion and violins have their own space in the venue.
On the cleaned recording nothing is anymore from one piece. Instruments are out of focus, transferred to left or right, vocal became big and hollow for the same reason. Everything is in your face. It seems cleaner, but you loose the event hologram. Something that happens when you go from Decca to London.
 If you have very high resolution system everything is more obvious and you can clearly hear what US cleaning does to the records.

A.


Gosh Alceta,
if I read you right you are saying Ultrasonic cleaning makes things worse and the better the playback system the worse it will sound. Am I right ??
"transferred to left or right"

From this statement alone I call BS

Good Listening

Peter
My experience has been that a noisy record will remain a noisy record with an RCM, Ultrasonic, or any combo thereof.

I’ve taken problematic samples to my local B&M audio store with an ultrasonic cleaner with detergent bath and air blow dry cycles.  Despite multiple attempts at home on my RCM - some records just remained noisy.  So I was hopeful that an ultrasonic cleaning would be the answer.

Twice thru and all the ticks and pops were in the exact same spots.

I’ve sent the same problematic samples (8 records) to a company that specializes in multi-step cleaning/archiving services for vinyl LPs. I carefully played and noted surface noise problems before sending and unfortunately, after return, the surface noise remained. Perhaps the sonics were improved a bit, but ultrasonic cleaning will not be a magic cure for ticks and pops.
Pbn, first listen to the two recordings and if you do not hear it that way, good for you.

Rrm, in my view ruined. The cleaned piece sounds to me completely flat and soulless.