New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning

@bdp24

A fully loaded model (with drying fan and water filtration system) is under a grand

Taking a quick look at the Cleaner Vinyl site it appears the under a grand price does not include the US tank, but is the full monty ancillaries.

Good point @totem395. Let me point out that a Vevor brand 40kHz tank can now be had for just under a hundred bucks. That, combined with the VinylStack LP spinner (recommended by @slaw, who is, as always, right on the mark ;-), is only about $170 more than the budget all-in-one cleaners discussed in this thread.

If and when the 132kHz tank offered by Vibrato (designed and built expressly for LP's) again becomes available, one of those may be substituted for a 40kHz tank if one so chooses. The combined price of that pairing is just under a grand. If one feels no need for LP drying and water filtering, that pairing appears to provide LP cleaning as good as any machine available at any price.

I use the basic Cleanervinyl rotisserie and two tanks.  One is a cheapo 40hz (kHz?) and a Vibratto 135hz that sweeps.  I first do the disc doctor fluid with the brushes, and without letting it dry on the records or rinsing, spin them in the 40 tank.  Then into the 135 to also rinse.  I have a filter running in the second tank, and replace the distilled water in that one fairly frequently.  Then air/fan dry, still on the rotisserie.  Unless the records are damaged or scratched to begin with, they are silent on a MoFi Studiodeck with a Soundsmith cartridge.

Fwiw, I went with the solution described in the first paragraph two posts above on bdp24’s reply. The VinylStack spinner is great, IMO. Have had good results. Tiny complaint, after about 3 hours of cleaning my US (6L size) heats up to 40C even with the heat off. Easy to rationalize that one deserves some quiet listening time after three hours of cleaning, however. 

Well fellas, I have some good news, and I have some bad news.

Last night I emailed the Vinyl Stack people, asking if the out-of-stock single-disc hand-held model would again be available at some point in the future. I figured it would be cool to have one for pre-rinsing newly-acquired old LP’s before putting them in or on the "good" cleaner.

This morning I received a reply from their production manager Erin, informing me that the company was closing shop, and that they were selling what they had left in stock, which included one and only one of the 3-disc "Sonic Spin Cleaner" (the official name of what I thought was named the Vinyl Stack).

I immediately went to their website and bought that last one (the website page showing the SSC now indicates it is out-of-stock). That’s the good news. The bad news is that anyone who had been thinking of getting one is out of luck. Better you than me ;-) .

Now I gotta get a tank. Recommendations, anyone? I put my name on the waiting list for the 132kHz model shown on the Vibrato website, but who knows when that will again be available? The Vibrato designer/builder states that he hasn’t been able to get any of the ultrasonic elements from China for quite some time. Damned pandemic ;-) .