"Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better!

A cleaning machine is the answer. One with a vacuum to suck up the fluid and residue or ultrasonic. I had a VPI for over twenty years and have now upgraded to the much quieter, semi-automatic Nessie. These are very high quality. 

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Add me to the voices saying that bad record cleaning is worse than none, but a good ultrasonic cleaner (with frequent changes of water) is excellent. I use an Audiosysteme box, but those are now a silly price - if I did not have it, I too wouod be a degritter or similar.

I always wondered why “quiet” is a virtue correlated with goodness when discussing vacuum based RCMs. I keep my noisy VPI in my basement workshop. When I clean records, I’m cleaning records, not listening to music. I’ve got a table radio in there for sports listening if warranted. It’s a vacuum cleaner; they’re supposed to be noisy. Quiet might mean weak vacuum.