Good Quality Distilled Water???

Doug,

Let me say in more succinct terms that I believe RRL products to be the best available for vinyl cleaning because of the testaments from members like you and Albert. For sure, if RRL has a distiller that does what they say, they are using water that is as pure as it gets. Also, I don't want anyone to feel like I'm being overly critical of any manufacturer of cleaning products. Most work very well and a couple are outstanding. This topic is like rice paper record sleeves. They are labeled as such because the sellers know that if they call them polyethylene they would sell fewer. I've always admired anyone that goes to the furthest extremes in a effort do their best as RRL apparently does. I do take offense at opinions based on nothing but ignorance. And, for the record, every drop of water on this planet has been cyrogenically treated long, long ago, and far, far away. Marco, maybe you can make some IC's out of this resource. More outrageous things have been tried.

Lugnut, thanks for piping in with an informed opinion.

Everyone,

As to the claims of RRL about how many times they deionize, it doesn't really matter to me 'cause I do hear a very perceptible improvement using RRL products. For a long time I used a home brew using store bought destilled water and based one of the oft mentioned DIY formulas (I do believe they are better than nothing) because I too was sceptical of what I thought was high priced snake oil. After reading AlbertPorter's post offering to give someone a sample to try, I decided to take a change and order a single bottle of the Super Vinyl Wash. I was totally convinced after re-cleaning and playing half a dozen or so of my LP's.

I still use my home brew first on those really grimy used records I bring home. But all of my records get a RRL wash and rinse before going into new sleeves.

Crap, Lugnut said it before, this is beating a dead horse. AGAIN.

I have to agree with the RRL camp.

I also tried many different things, and none work as well for me.

I also tried them based on recommendations of Patrick, Doug, and others here.

I also have learned that there are people on this forum who have much more patience to try many more processes than I am willing to try.

So, to sum it all up, Patrick may have the most anal cleaning process in the world, but damn if it don't work good! I use it on any "rare or expensive" album that I have. I use about 3/4 of the process on the rest.

And since I started doing it his way, damn if my albums don't sound better.

So, I gues what I'm tying to say is you can try all of the options that are out there, or you can take the advice offered, and try it first. It may save you a lot of aggravation, and again I'll testify to the fact that it does work, and well.

JM2C.

Joe

Actually, I did try Holy Water but found it produced too much static.

A good source of mineral free water is the water condensed in an airconditioner - just pass it through an ordinary paper filter and voila, a perfectly good (and cheap) mineral free water, albeit, slightly acidic, which actually helps in cutting through fatty deposits.