Good Quality Distilled Water???

If one stoops to using something as unrefined as filtered tap water, wouldn't a pass through the Nitty Gritty or similiar machine remove those filtered water contaminants?

Ok I must chime in here---

For ages I have used the VPI cleaner, and have kept it in the refrigerator in a gallon jug (to keep it from spoilage)...

I had an unexpected house-guest that apparently got thirsty in the middle of the night.

YUP, you guessed it! He drank a bunch of my VPI cleaner thinking it was cold water ~!

When he told me what he had done-- I just about died. "That wasn't water, that was record cleaner."

He lived without incident, so I guess the VPI stuff was good quality!!!!

Oh BTW, my RRL fluid is on its way from Red Trumpet, so if anyone visits dont get any wild ideas :)

Focusedfx

Focusedfx, serve it over shaved ice, with a twist....

The garden-variety Steam Distilled Water sold at my local supermarket is labeled "Purified Water USP, and marked "purified by distillation and ozonation." It also has an NSF International certification. I checked the NSF International standards for drinking water, and their testing protocols are pretty rigorous.

Plus, the "USP" means the water is pharmaceutical grade, which is pretty much as good as it gets outside of extraordinary purification measures.

So - if regular supermarket distilled water is certified AND is pharmaceutical grade, why isn't it good enough to clean LPs?

OK, so tap water has minerals, chemicals, and various other assorted nasty stuff. The big question is how big is the biggest particle of this stuff that you would find left behind on your record after cleaning it with a good machine, and if this particle is big enough to be audible.

I think not.

I followed the link above about Art Dudley trying the RLR stuff. He played a record, cleaned it with RLR, and it was better. So what, did he compare it to other records cleaned by other means? No. Is that a controlled experiment? No.

How would you do a controlled experiment anyway? Clean a record by one method, play it, then clean it with another? Who is to say that the order in which was cleaned had an affect? Maybe cleaning with method A followed by B is better than B followed by A or maybe throwing in method C would help. The very fact that you cleaned it by any method could affect the vinyl in irreversible ways and make it impossible to compare it to other methods.

Don't get me wrong here. I have a very expensive cleaning machine and there is definitely a difference in a clean versus a dirty record, but quadrupled deionized water?? hee hee hee