It's been my experience that US cleaners perform best when cleaning one lp at a time.
Recorded Cleaning Machnies
I'm going to buy a ultra sonic record cleaning machine. I am looking seriously at the Degritter MK2 but I just found the Isonic CS6.1-Pro Record Cleaning System, which has the advantage of cleaning 10 records at a time. Anyone have any experience with either of these? Comments? I have a lot of records (like most folks reading this I suppose) so cleaning 10 records at a time is a big deal. There is a price difference, but frankly, that is not too big a deal given what I am buying here.
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Neil and Bill have it right: you can't tell by looking, and some combination of mechanical cleaning and ultrasonic cleaning is needed for older records. Maybe if one only bought new records an U/S machine alone would suffice, but I can't see why anyone would limit themselves to only new LPs! Having said that, any cleaning is better than none, and even a simple vacuum machine will give you most of the auditory gains. When you see the minutiae of cleaning solutions, kHz and KW discussed, we are in the territory of diminishing returns. Those smaller gains may be very important to some, but you can have 80-90% of cleaning benefits just by doing it at all, by whatever means. |
Thank you! I should have added: I mostly buy very old, very used records. I wont use two machines, two processes. Not because I don’t believe in it, I just know I would not have the energy, I would a put a record after I bought it in the machine and then I would have little reason to do it again as I do my best to keep them away from dirt. I also don’t have the budget and space for two items (barely for one). I want to buy the one that does most of the job. Sounds like the vacuum based would be it. The ultrasonic does the final, smaller portion. Maybe I am very wrong in understanding it. So Pro-ject or HummingGuru?
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@gano- one of the nice things about Neil's book is that in the course of explaining what is going on in the process of cleaning a record, he offers methods to do this without using a machine. It will require you to buy some chemicals and inexpensive apparatus but it is a thorough explanation, and you can, if you take the time to digest it, explore and determine the best approach for you. I'm a big believer in a rinse step, due to the residue issues discussed above. |
thanks @whart ! I am not very handy which is why I thought a vacuum cleaner may do a better job than I would. The less I touch something the better. |
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