Vinyl Accessories - Skip It or Buy It!

A hand held steamer. If for nothing else, to clean all of your record cleaning brushes/velvet pads. They will last much longer as well as stay clean whenever you're ready to use them.

A well thought out record mat.
I use two MyMats.

I'm the MyMat designer.

@slaw can u post or pm a link to the my mat for us? 

@slaw,

What is the purpose of a record mat? 

@tablejockey,

I hear you on four figure cleaning machines and they make sense as a long term investment. My collection of vinyl is all new records and very manageable at this point. I don’t plan on buying every album that gets released on Vinyl (probably buy those that sucks on streaming ...lol) I’ve noticed even new vinyl benefits from proper cleaning, less pops n clicks and surface noise.

I will bring in both spin-clean and Pro-Ject machine. Their video on YouTube suggests a relatively easy process to clean the vinyl :-)
https://youtu.be/G6mFWdny_Pw

Then there is Kirmuss Audio US record machine for $1K. I have seen their demo at RMAF last year, pretty impressive.

https://kirmussaudio.com/ka-rc-1-ultrasonic-record-restoration-system/

More toys for grown men :-)