cleaning vinyl. which cleaning fluid to use.

Another vote for the RRL fluids, plus the aerosol Premier cleaner. These give pretty good results on our Loricraft. RRL is available from Galen Carol @ $20/bottle. www.gcaudio.com. Premier is available from Acoustic Sounds and most other audio etailers.

For obviously soiled records we also use the aerosol foaming cleaner sold by Smart Developments. Similar to most other isopropyl based solutions, but the foaming action cleans better than a straight liquid.

A Loricraft? You bastard! :-)

Let me ask you this. Do you then "finish" with the RRL Super Vinyl Wash after using the aerosols on the "soily" ones?

Only RRL for me. better than disc doctor's stuff. The vinyl is much quieter after using RRL deep clean followed by RRL super vinyl wash.

Loricraft? Doug you suck! Just kidding. I'm still 'ghetto' with my Record Doctor II record cleaning machine.

Nyah, nyah! ;-) Yup, we sprung for it big time. Just couldn't resist after so many positive posts. Another factor was that a wood-plattered Teres seems to be extremely revealing of everything, including surface noise. This was reported at the Teres platter shootout at VSAC last year and I believe it. A Shelter 901 doesn't hide much either, and neither does our taste for classical, with its many low level passages. We really had no choice you know, or so I told Paul!

It's a fine machine but we're still too new with it to post a review. I'd never used anything but a modded shop vac so I have no baseline for comparison, unless you want to hear that a Loricraft beats that.

Next month I'll be visiting someone who has the new, higher powered Loricraft PRC4 (we have the PRC3). It will be interesting to see how much better that works. Maybe I'll write an essay, "How I spent my summer vacation washing records". Talk about my so-called life!

Our final stage is always RRL SVW. No exception to that and no reason to think there ever will be. It's a superb rinse agent. Totally agree that it leaves no sonic signature of its own.

I'd start compiling notes because I will wager that someone will claim that their ShopVac is every bit as good as the Loricraft.

Has Paul appreciated the Loricraft vs. the ShopVac visa vis the price differential? HA! :-)