What is the best way to clean Vinyl?

My budget is now $375 after buying the Deluxe Spin Clean.

I may return it.

@jjbeason14, 

Vacuum RCMs are mostly about convenience - they suck the fluid from the surface.  The chemistry used, the brush used, and your technique determine how clean the record will be.  There are very high $$$$ vacuum-RCM that have automated cleaning, but nothing near your budget.  

Ultrasonic offers a cleaning method that mostly eliminates your technique as a variable.  But they have limits, and used records generally need a pre-clean and many people use a Spin-Clean or vacuum-RCM for that purpose.  At your budget, the HG is not a bad ultrasonic unit - it's mostly automated and many people like it. 

Will any cleaning method produce miracles - no.  As I wrote above, there are many reasons why 'new' records can be noisy.  Can 'some' records pressed by the better plants on good vinyl near CD background noise quality - yes.  

However, how you handle the record, your environment and turntable mat, can all compromise the best cleaning process.  Everyone has their own rituals on how they handle and play records and the various opinions are at best wide-ranging.  

After all is said and done, my recommendation is always the best process is/are the ones best for you, and only you really know that. Some people are perfectly happy with a full manual process, others want the convenience of vacuum RCM, and others want the ultimate convenience of a fully automated machine.  But just about any cleaning process can be yield exceptional results with the appropriate attention to detail which is why the book Precision Aqueous Cleaning of Vinyl Records-3rd Edition - The Vinyl Press  is 190 pages.  

Good Luck

What I"m frustrated with antinn is that the Spin Clean, despite the awards, doesn't improve the static or pops at all.  It remains the same.

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I do appreciate your input thought.

Thanks Again!

I returned the Spin Clean.

Thinking about picking up the Humminguru US.

Anyone have any experience with it?